Last year, the American Bar Association published "Eminent Domain - A Handbook of Condemnation Law," a one-volume deskbook with an overview of condemnation and inverse condemnation law.
I authored two chapters in the book, one on Prelitigation Process, the other on Flooding and Erosion. (My Damon Key colleagues also co-authored the chapter on Damages Resulting from a Taking, so our firm's fingerprints were all over this book.)
Anyway, as you know, the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued its decision in in Arkansas Game and Fish Comm'n v. United States, No. 11-597 (Dec. 4, 2012), in which a unanimous Court held that government-induced flooding could be a taking, even if temporary. The Sandy superstorm also raised some takings by flood issues.
As a consequence, takings liability for inundation damage is on every dirt lawyer's mind, so the ABA Publications office has posted an excerpt of the Flooding and Erosion chapter here to provide an overview of the law related to governmental liablity for flooding resulting from purposeful acts.
It's a high-altitude view and does not deal with the law of any particular jurisdiction, but hopefully it may encourage you to buy the book. It's not a substitute for Nichols, but it wasn't intended to be, merely a one-stop overview of the law. Might make a darn good stocking stuffer for that lawyer who does not practice eminent domain full time, but who needs to know about the law.
