Kickapoo Tribe says it will ask for federal help to secure land needed to build reservoir
“An American Indian tribe that has been trying for years to build a reservoir near its northeast Kansas property is considering seeking federal help to secure land for the project.
Efforts by the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas to build Plum Creek Reservoir have been stalled by the water district that oversees the land close to the tribe’s property 50 miles north of Topeka, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported (http://bit.ly/1iiHcUA ). The tribe has been able to acquire only about half the land needed to build the reservoir.
A federal court ruled Dec. 20 after seven years of litigation that the tribe cannot compel the Nemaha-Brown Watershed Joint District No. 7 to use its powers of eminent domain to obtain private property needed so the reservoir can move forward.”
The Associated Press. Daily Reporter 4 February 2014.