Federal judge OKs settlement in Dauphin Island erosion suit - al.com

Federal judge OKs settlement in Dauphin Island erosion suit - al.com: "A federal judge approved a settlement Tuesday in the nearly decade-old lawsuit over Dauphin Island erosion. The settlement grants property owners $1.5 million for rebuilding beaches.

The Dauphin Island Property Owners Association filed suit against the federal government in 2000, blaming chronic erosion and land loss on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' dredging of the Mobile Ship Channel.

U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Bohdan Futey approved the settlement, requiring the federal government to pay $1.44 million and Alabama's government to pay another $60,000."