RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection intends to decide in January whether to cut off most bottled water deliveries to neighbors of a toxic mine in Yerington who've been receiving it for the past 15 years.
Jeff Collins, chief of the division's Bureau of Corrective Actions, says if the decision is finalized, deliveries will be phased out over about six months.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reports he said at a public meeting in Yerington a week ago there's a "high likelihood" they'll be discontinuing bottled water next year.
The water's currently available to more than 100 residents mostly on tribal lands neighboring the former Anaconda copper mine about 65 miles southeast of Reno.
The state is working to clean up a 90-million-gallon toxic stew of uranium, arsenic and other chemicals abandoned at the site in 2000.