# GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `22373`
- **Case Number:** 04-1997-0564
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

EPA DETERMINED THAT RESPONDENT ANDOR OTHER PERSONS ACTING ON BEHALF OF RESPONDENT WAS IN NON-COMPLIANCE WITH NWP-26       CONDITION 3 AND BY FAILURE TO PROPERTY IMPLEMENT AND/OR      MAINTAIN EROSION AND SEDIMENTATION CONTROLS DURING           CONSTRUCTION OF THE I-985/LAKE LANIER ISLANDS CONNECTOR      ROAD, KNOWN AS GA HWY 347 AND HOLIDAY ROAD HAVE DISCHARGED   AND ALLOWED THE EROSIONAL DISCHARGE OF MATERIAL CONSISTING   OF EARTHEN MATERIAL FROM POOR CONTROL OF ROAD RILL, WITH     CONSEQUENT SEDIMENTATION IN BIG CREEK'S HEADQATERS AND THE   STREAMS AND WETLANDS ASSOCIATED WITH BIG CREEK AND ITS       EMBAYMENT IN LAKE SIDNEY LANIER.

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