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National Dam Safety Awareness Day: Video 5

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District

May 12, 2015 | 1:45

In support of National Dam Safety Awareness Day (May 31), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District will post brief updates throughout the month of May about our Dam Safety Program. Did you know that in response to devastating floods that occurred in Houston in 1929 and 1935, the USACE Galveston District began construction of Addicks and Barker dams in what was then undeveloped areas in far west Harris and east Fort Bend counties to prevent the loss of life and property and provide flood damage reduction along Buffalo Bayou downstream of the reservoirs and through the center of the City of Houston? Learn more about how these structures have save taxpayers an estimated $8 billion (2014) in potential flood prevention. Also available in high definition.