December 23, 2020 By David Murray
The judge in the
Ideker Farms Missouri River “takings” case has ordered the Corps of Engineers to pay a group of landowners along the Missouri River for flood damages due to the Corps’ actions in creating structures to protect endangered species as part of the Missouri River Recovery Program (MRRP). The plaintiffs contended that those structures weakened the Corps’ flood control mission and directly caused flooding that damaged their property between 2004 and 2014. A judge agreed with the plaintiffs in the Phase I part of the case, which is named for Roger Ideker, a farmer and plaintiff in St. Joseph, Mo.