# SWEET, DAVID DBA ALASKA VENTURES
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `53987`
- **Case Number:** 10-1984-0006
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $5K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DAVID SWEET, DBA ALASKA VENTURES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SYNOPSIS                                                     THIS IS A DIRECT REFERRAL INVOLVING AN INDUSTRIAL FACILITY (PLACER MINE) DISCHARGING UNTREATED POLLUTANTS INTO NORTH    FORK HARRISON CREEK NEAR CIRCLE, ALASKA, WITHOUT AN NPDES    PERMIT.                                                        DAVID SWEET, DBA ALASKA VENTURES, OPERATED A PLACER MINING FACILITY ON A CLAIM LOCATED ALONG NORTH FORK HARRISON CREEK  IN THE CIRCLE MINING DISTRICT NEAR CIRCLE, ALASKA, IN THE    VICINITY OF FAIRBANKS.  HIS MAIN PURPOSE WAS TO RECOVER GOLD FROM NEAR-SURFACE PLACER DEPOSITS BY PROCESSING THE GOLD-    BEARING MATERIAL THROUGH A SLUICE BOX WITH WATER.              EPA CONDUCTED AN UNANNOUNCED INSPECTION OF THE MINE ON     8/5/83.  AT THE TIME OF THE INSPECTION, SERIOUS VIOLATIONS   OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT WERE OBSERVED.                          MR SWEET HAS NEVER APPLIED FOR OR HELD A NPDES PERMIT.  IN ADDITION, MR SWEET HAS HAD TWO CONTACTS WITH THE ALASKA DE-  PARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION (ADEC) WHEREIN HE WAS DETERMINED TO BE IN VIOLATION OF ALASKA WATER QUALITY STAN-  TARDS IN 1981 AND 1982.                                        THE COMPLAINT ADDRESSES DISCHARGES OF PLACER MINING WASTES (SLUICE WATER) INTO WATERS OF THE U.S. WITHOUT TREATMENT AND WITHOUT A VALID NPDES PERMIT.  THE DISCHARGE ALSO VIOLATED   STATE WATER QUALITY STANDARDS WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN THE      BASIS FOR ANY SUCH PERMIT.  THE COMPLAINT SEEKS BOTH CIVIL   PENALTIES NOT TO EXCEED $10,000 PER DA

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