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“Imagine coming up to your diggings, only to see agents swarming over it like ants, wearing full body armor, with jackets that say “POLICE” emblazoned on them, and all packing side arms,” gold miner C.R. Hammond told the Alaska Dispatch.

If I understand this correctly, this was a raid on a gold mine, presumably on the assumption that the mining operation was damaging the environment or something.

Maybe the government's real concern was gold, not water.

Indeed, I searched around and found the mine that was apparently raided:

http://www.chickengold.com/mine.html

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Sorry. Workable link:

http://www.chickengold.com/mine.html