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Missouri River floodwaters surround a farmhouse and buildings on June 15, 2011, near Hamburg in southwest Iowa. A federal judge has ruled the federal government must pay some landowners along the lower Missouri River for flooding damage caused between 2007 and 2015 by changes the Army Corps of Engineers made to the river to protect endangered species. (Associated Press) Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. The federal government must pay some landowners along the lower Missouri River for flooding damage caused by changes the Army Corps of Engineers made to the river to protect endangered species, a judge has ruled.
Government ordered to pay landowners on lower Missouri River
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Dec 17, 2020 at 11:12 am EDT
OMAHA, Neb. The federal government must pay some landowners along the lower Missouri River for flooding damage caused by changes the Army Corps of Engineers made to the river to protect endangered species, a judge has ruled.
The ruling this week by Senior Judge Nancy Firestone, with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, could cost the government millions of dollars and increase the cost of protecting endangered species, The Omaha World-Herald reported.
“This is a big deal,” said Anthony Schutz, an associate law professor at the University of Nebraska. “The potential liability could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars depending upon how many people are included.”