North Dakota-based contractor Fisher Sand & Gravel, which received nearly $2 billion in federal US-Mexico border wall construction contracts, has settled a lawsuit brought by the US government over flood risks posed by a separate 3.5-mile privately funded wall the company built in 2019.
Constructed on private land along a Rio Grande River bank near Mission, Texas, the wall's risks came to light in a 2019 lawsuit filed by the US Justice Dept. It charged that the $42-million steel bollard fence fence was showing signs of erosion and instability and was in violation of a treaty with Mexico under the International Boundary and Water Commission because of flood risks to the river flow.