In Hauselt v. County of Butte, No. C054927 (Mar. 23, 2009), the California Court of Appeal held
The property owner asserted the County inversely condemned its property by implementing a drainage plan which resulted in the land being flooded more often than usual, and that the County denied his proposal to develop the property. After bench trial, the trial court determined that the County had not acted unreasonably, that its activites did not increase the water flow on the land, and that the landowner was entitled to $1,034 in just compensation for a temporary taking (the County placed material on the land in 1998 to prevent a storm from flooding a neighboring parcel.