Las Vegas Sun

April 25, 2024

A man walks Jan. 5, 2008, amid the flooded area in Fernley, Nev. Eight years, dozens of lawyers and hundreds of thousands of documents later, more than 200 Nevada flood victims are finally going to get paid for damages suffered when a century-old irrigation canal burst and sent a wall of water into their homes in 2008.

Tim Dunn / Reno-Gazette Journal / AP File

A man walks Jan. 5, 2008, amid the flooded area in Fernley, Nev. Eight years, dozens of lawyers and hundreds of thousands of documents later, more than 200 Nevada flood victims are finally going to get paid for damages suffered when a century-old irrigation canal burst and sent a wall of water into their homes in 2008.