WOOD RIVER, Neb. (AP) — The executive director of a program to enhance habitat for endangered waterfowl says that his organization’s Platte River island work did not cause flooding along a road in Wood River.

Jerry Kenny spoke to the Hall County board Tuesday, two weeks after the board heard testimony from landowners who live along Shoemaker Island Road. The landowners say nesting islands created by the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program is responsible for the ice jam flooding that damaged road, pastures and cropland in February.

Kenny said the program’s work, which has been testing whether certain waterfowl need nesting ground in the river as opposed to along it, was permitted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Some of the landowners who were at Kenny’s presentation and board members questioned the program’s choice of location for the nesting islands and its alteration of the river.