# JIM SOUTHERN
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20161`
- **Case Number:** 04-1982-0027
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JIM SOUTHERN (complaint)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                             THIS IS A PROPOSED CIVIL ACTION JIM SOUTHERN, HARDIN    COUNTY, TENN, FOR VIOL OF SEC 1311(A) (DISCHARGING DREDGE    & FILL MATERIALS INTO WATERS W/O A CORPS OF ENGINEERS        PERMIT UNDER SEC 404.) THE DEF HAS UNDERTAKEN AN EXTEN-      SIVE CHANNELIZATION PROJECT IN CHAMBERS CREEK, A TRIBU-      TARY OF THE TENN RIVER. THIS ACTIVITY HAS RESULTED IN        DISCHARGE OF DREDGED &/OR FILL MATERIAL INTO CHAMBERS        CREEK, WATERS OF THE US, & INTO AN ADJACENT WETLAND OF       APPROX 66 ACRES, WHICH ALSO CONSTITUTE WATERS OF THE US.     DEF'S ACTIVITIES HAVE RESULTED IN THE CONVERSION OF THE      66 ACRES OF WETLAND TO A FARMING OPERATION -- A USE TO       WHICH IT WAS NOT PREVIOUSLY SUBJECT.

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