Henderson County Drainage District #3, et al., v. USA

The Henderson County Drainage District 3 and ten other drainage districts along the Mississippi River sued the US Army Corps of Engineers alleging that the Upper Mississippi River Locks and Dams had caused excessive flooding over the levees, seepage through the levees, and caused the soils in their districts to have low crop yields due to the wetness. The case was brought before the US Federal Court of Claims and in 2004 the Court denied in full the claim of $450 million in damages.

View of Mississippi River in vicinity of the eleven agricultural drainage districts that sued the

Rock Island District of United States Army Corps of Engineers.

The eleven agricultural drainage districts alleged that the lock and dam system on the Upper MIssissippi River caused increased flooding, seepage through the levees, and made the soils in their districts excessively wet and caused low crop yields from 1937 through 2004.

Map of Henderson County Drainage District #3 is located behind the Mississippi River levee in

Henderson County, Illinois.

Aerial Map of Henderson County Drainage District #3 in Henderson County, Illinois.

Map of Marion County Drainage District near Hannibal, Missouri and across the Mississippi River

from Quincy, Illinois.

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