Imagine owning a vacation getaway you can only reach by wading through water and mud. About two dozen cabin owners, many from the Omaha metro, say they're being intentionally flooded out.

Their cabins are three hours north of the metro near Gavins Point Dam. The owners blame the Corps of Engineers for not doing enough to prevent flooding of their vacation property every summer.

Omahan Mike Aliano wonders if that's on purpose. “I believe they want us out. They want that whole river bottom out, they want it to themselves and I don't see them doing anything to solve the problem."

“Heavens no," says Paul Johnston of the Corps of Engineers. If we could find a nice economic way to fix their problem we'd sure do it."

Cabin owners say the problem is like an almost plugged drain. When water is released at Gavins Point Dam, the water flow miles upstream back up onto their property. They say a solution is dredging the mouth of the Niobrara River, about a mile away. Though that sounds simple, the Corps says dredging the mouth of the Niobrara is not cheap or easy.

Cabin owners say a trip to their weekend getaways is hardly a vacation anymore. They are now fighting a plan to spend millions of dollars to move a highway affected by the continual flooding. They believe that money would be better spent digging out the silt that causes the water to back up onto their land.