Top 10 stories of 2018: Fayetteville homeowners sue city over dams
Two years after Hurricane Matthew, the fight over rebuilding private dams in Fayetteville headed to court. Residents who live in subdivisions where earthen dams were destroyed by Matthew’s historic flooding filed a federal lawsuit in June, after city leaders said they were unable to use public money to fix private dams. The empty lakebeds are one of the few remaining scars of Matthew, overgrown with weeds and saplings where neighbors once paddled their […]
