Pruitt v. Douglas County

This is a suit by homeowners Sam and Boni Fletcher and John and Marian Pruitt against Douglas County for water damage arising from a June 1997 storm. Originally, the natural flow of water across certain land— *551properties ultimately acquired by the homeowners here— would have been 15 cubic feet per second (c.f.s.) during a similar storm. But before the landowners built their homes, the county and others constructed roads which reduced the natural flow across their properties from such a storm to 1 to 2 c.f.s. After the homeowners built, the county made road improvements which channeled water…