Prospectors found gold here, although extracting it from the riverbanks was another matter. The Powder River is what drew many of the miners to Sumpter Valley. A view from the back of the Sumpter Valley Dredge. Machinery inside the Sumpter Valley Dredge. A view from the front of the Sumpter Valley Dredge. The Sumpter Valley Dredge’s ore conveyer buckets. A view of the restored Sumpter Valley Dredge. Looking up at the dredge’s ore conveyer buckets. The maximum penalty Poe faced ranged from $37,500 to $60,000 per violation based on when the dredging occurred, adding up to nearly $2 million.A view of the restored Sumpter Valley Dredge. That led to the remedial phase of the case that resulted the $150,000 fine issued to Poe on Wednesday. Army Corps of Engineers agreed that the operation of a suction dredge resulted in discharge of processed waste, requiring the permit. He said that even if his suction dredge did add pollutants, it would be considered dredged or fill material regulated under a different section of the Clean Water Act, also not requiring a specific type of permit.īut Chief U.S.
Poe’s defense was to argue he didn’t need any type of Clean Water Act permit because his suction dredge didn’t add pollutants to the river. The Idaho Conservation League also said Poe encouraged unpermitted mining by other gold seekers in Idaho rivers. Federal and state agencies repeatedly notified Poe of the violations, but Poe denied being subject to the Clean Water Act, according to the lawsuit filed by the Idaho Conservation League.
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