Residents of Shiloh, Alabama are suing the state’s department of transportation, claiming that the agency’s expansion of a highway has caused repeated flooding of their homes.
As Lee Hedgepeth explains in Inside Climate News, “The lawsuit, filed July 1 in federal court, alleges that the flooding in Shiloh continues to worsen as rainwater erodes the land around US-84.”
ALDOT has denied that the flooding is a result of discrimination against the community, but agreed to a “voluntary resolution” that was meant to bring relief to residents by either buying more right-of-way to divert rainwater from homes or building an additional detention basin, but little has been done and flooding continues to affect residents’ homes…