# BRASSEY, JON
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Litigated No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `53953`
- **Case Number:** 10-1980-0010
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BRASSEY, J. (complaint)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                             THE US IS SUEING JON BRASSEY FOR DISCHARGING DREDGE     & FILL MATERIAL INTO WETLANDS W/O A CWA PERMIT. TRIAL WAS    HELD 7/20-22/82, IN BOISE, ID. POST-TRIAL BRIEFING WILL      BE COMPLETED ON 9/30/82, W/THE COURT'S DECISION TO FOLLOW    . THE DEF IS A LARGE LANDOWNER & LAND DEVELOPER W/EXTEN-     SIVE HOLDINGS NEAR PLACERVILLE, ID. THE AREA IN QUESTION,    COMPRISING APPROX 37 AREAS, IS OWNED BY THE DEF & IS SUR-    ROUNDED BY RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISIONS HE HAS DEVELOPED &       SOLD TO MANY INDIVIDUALS. THE WETLANDS AREA IS LOCATED IN    A MOUNTAIN MEADOW & LIES ADJACENT TO A CREEK WHOSE WATERS    EVENTUALLY REACH THE BOISE RIVER. THE WETLANDS & THE VEG-    ETATION ON IT ARE PART OF THE NATION'S NAVIGABLE WATERS      FOR PURPOSES OF THE CWA.                                          THE FACTS OF THE DEF'S CONDUCT ARE UNCONTESTED. BY      7/79 MR. BRASSEY WAS DIGGING & ENLARGING DITCHES, CUTTING    & DESTROYING VEGETATION, USING EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENT TO     SPREAD FILL & WAS GENERALLY MAKING MAJOR PHYSICAL CHANGES    TO THE WETLANDS AREA. THESE ACTIVITIES CONTINUED INTO        1981. RESTORATION OF THE AREA TO ITS ORIGINAL CONDITION      WILL BE EXPENSIVE & DIFFICULT. NEVERTHELESS, ALONG W/APP-    ROPRIATE PLTY'S, THAT IS WHAT THE GOV'T IS REQUESTING.            MR. BRASSEY WAS TOLD REPEATEDLY BY THE STATE & FED      OFFICIALS THAT HE WAS ACTING IN VIOL OF LAW, BUT THESE       WARNINGS APPARENTLY HAD NO EFFECT ON H

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