# MAGMA COPPER COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52396`
- **Case Number:** 09-1992-0122
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $385K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MAGMA COPPER CO (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS REFERRAL IS ONE OF THREE RELATED REFERRALS SEEKING    TO REQUIRE THE MAGMA COPPER CO TO PAY PAY CIVIL PENALTIES    AS A RESULT OF ITS FAILURE TO CONTROL DISCHARGES, CHIEFLY    RELEASES AND SEE PAGES OF PROCESS WATER, MINE DRAINAGE       WATER, ACID AND DISSOLVED COPPER SOLUTIONS, AND CONTAMINATED STORMWATER, AND TO CONTROL DISCHARGES OF ITS TAILINGS, IN    VIOLATION OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA), AT THREE FACILITIES  OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE COMPANY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA.   THE FACILITIES ARE KNOWN AS THE PINTO VALLEY OPERATIONS,     SUPERIOR MINING DIVISION, AND COPPER CITIES UNIT. THE        REFERRAL ALSO SEEKS TO OBTAIN A DECREE REQUIRING THAT MAGMA  FULLY ACHIEVE, AND THEREAFTER MAINTAIN COMPLIANCE WITH THE   CWA AT THOSE FACILITIES.                                       THE PINTO VALLEY OPERATIONS IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 5     MILES WEST OF MIAMI, ARIZONA. THE FACILITY INCLUDES AN OPEN  PIT COPPER SULFIDE MINE. THE ORE IS MILLED AT THE SITE. THE  PINTO VALLEY OPERATIONS WHICH FORM THE BASIS OF THE REFERRAL HAVE COME FROM STORMWATER CONTAINMENT PONDS CONTAMINATED     WITH INDUSTRIAL PROCESS WATER, SEE PAGE FROM TAILINGS PONDS, AND FROM SLOUGHING OF THE TAILINGS THEMSELVES FROM FAILED    FACES OF TAILINGS DAMS.

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