Skip to main content

Water Resources: Flooding on Easement Lands Within the Red Rock, Iowa, Reservoir

RCED-95-4 Published: Dec 23, 1994. Publicly Released: Dec 23, 1994.
Jump To:
Skip to Highlights

Highlights

Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed: (1) whether the property within the Red Rock, Iowa, reservoir's boundary has been inundated beyond the levels permitted by the easements allowing occasional flooding; (2) whether compensation for the easements should be renegotiated with the landowners; and (3) actions taken to implement section 108(b) of Public Law 99-190, which authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to purchase property with easements from those landowners who are willing to sell.

Full Report

Office of Public Affairs

Topics

Flood control managementFloodsLand use agreementsLand use lawProperty damage claimsReal property acquisitionWater supplyEasementsCompensationFair market value