ELR Citation: ELR 20817
No(s). 76-783 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. Aug 9, 1977)

A municipality may be held liable in inverse condemnation when it takes water for a public purpose from a shallow aquifer under plaintiff's land if in so doing it deprives the surface owner of the beneficial use of the aquifer. The complaint in this case alleges that withdrawals from defendant's nea...