U.S. Ordered to Pay State for Farm Flooding
The U.S. government was ordered to pay $2.8 million to California for a 1995 flood that washed out farms on the San Joaquin Valley’s west side.
A federal court of appeals ruled that the government was not immune from damages to compensate nearly two dozen farms flooded along the San Luis Canal.
The court rejected the government’s claim that sovereign immunity protected it from damages. The federal government is under contract to pay 45% of costs, including damages, for the state-federal canal.
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