📋 Tender Overview
The Environmental Assessment and Control Agency (OEFA), an agency attached to the Ministry of the Environment (MINAM), has been carrying out supervision actions in response to the complaint of an alleged contaminated supply of water for human consumption. The inhabitants of the Simón Bolívar district stated that turbidity is observed in the water distributed by the Cerro de Pasco mining unit, of the Cerro S.A.C. management company, belonging to the Volcan company.
The OEFA is conducting a tour of the points of the facilities of the mining unit, related to the systems of collection, treatment and distribution of water for human consumption and where its camps are located within the city of Pasco, which will allow us to verify the reported facts, identify the environmental impacts and take the corresponding administrative and/or legal actions within the framework of our competences.
The environmental control authority will report in a timely manner on the results of the supervision actions it has been carrying out.
Data:
Between 2017 and 2023, the OEFA has issued twenty-six (26) administrative measures to the Cerro de Pasco mining unit; of which nine (9) are related to the distribution of drinking water to their camps and the populations indicated above. In addition, it has twelve (12) Administrative Sanctioning Procedures in which administrative responsibility was determined and pecuniary sanctions were imposed, which are final, for a total amount of 1,060.3651 UIT; as well as periodic penalty payments amounting to a total amount of 90 UIT.
