Legal Opinion
Henderson County Drainage District No. 3 v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided January 23, 2003No. 97-821 LPublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
HEWITT, Judge.
This action involves claims on theories of breach of contract and takings brought by drainage districts and riparian landowners along the Upper Mississippi River in Illinois and Missouri against the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) arising out of the Corps’ operation and maintenance of a 9-foot navigation channel (Navigation Project or 9-foot channel).1
Constructed in the mid-1980s, the Navigation Project permits commercial vessels to move cargo. Henderson County Drainage Dist. No. 3 v. United States, 53 Fed.Cl. 48, 51 (2002). To support commercial…
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