I once attended a county board meeting in Virginia. One of the items of business was a pair of neighbors complaining about the noise and heavy truck traffic from a local quarry impinging on their enjoyment of their properties, despite the decorative berm put in by the quarry at its own expense to mitigate sightlines and sound pollution.

Both homes had been built, then purchased by these homeowners more than 15 years AFTER the quarry had begun operations. The county board ruled against them.

They attempted to jointly sue the county and the quarry.


So, if the dam was constructed AFTER the development of the property in question and over the written objections of that owner, then MAYBE they are owed some compensation. Absent that, go pound sand.