# ALASKA GOLD CO
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `54109`
- **Case Number:** 10-1987-0079
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $100K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALASKA GOLD CO (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ALASKA GOLD CO OWNS AND OPERATES PLACER GOLD MINING        FACILITY AT NOME, AK.  IN 1985 AND 1986, EPA INSPECTORS      OBSERVED THE OPERATION OF DREDGE #6 IN VIOLATION OF NPDES    PERMIT.  WASTEWATER WAS DISCHARGED FROM THE DREDGE POND AND  THE THAW FIELD RECYCLE POND TO NORTON SOUND.  THE WASTEWATER CONTAINED CONCENTRATIONS OF SETTLEABLE SOLIDS AND TOTAL      ARSENIC THAT EXCEEDED THE PERMIT LIMITATIONS.                  DURING 1985 THE COMPANY DISCHARGED WASTEWATER ASSOCIATED   WITH MERCURY AMALGAMATION, WHICH WAS SPECIFICALLY NOT        AUTHORIZED UNDER THE NPDES PERMIT.  DURING 1985 AND 1986,    THE COMPANY FAILED TO MONITOR THE DISCHARGE FROM THE THAW    FIELD RECYCLE POND.                                            ON 6/30/86, A COMPLIANCE ORDER WAS ISSUED TO ALASKA GOLD   CO, DREDGE #6, FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE PERMIT DURING 1985.     DURING THE 1986 MINING SEASON, THE COMPANY VIOLATED THE      TERMS OF THE COMPLIANCE ORDER BY NOT BEING IN FULL           COMPLIANCE WITH A VALID NPDES PERMIT.  THE DISCHARGES FROM   DREDGE POND AND THE THAW FIELD RECYCLE POND HAVE CONTINUED   TO VIOLATE PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN THE COMPLIANCE ORDER AND  THE NPDES PERMIT.                                              THE MAGNITUDE AND EXTENT OF VIOLATIONS THAT OCCURRED IN    1985 AND 1986 COMPEL US TO RECOMMEND THAT A CIVIL ACTION BE  TAKEN.  SPECIFIC INFORMATION DESCRIBING THE VIOLATIONS ARE   ATTACHED ALONG WITH A CIVIL PENALTY CALCULATION.  AT THIS    TIME, THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM PENALTY IS

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