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- Source: Dallas Morning News
- Date: August 03, 2008
- URL: Read the story
- Bylines:
Jim Getz ,
Jennifer LaFleur
- Topics:
Safety ,
Disasters
- Data Types:
State Data ,
Federal Data
- Description/Excerpt: A Dallas Morning News investigation found that suburban sprawl has encroached on hundreds of dams in Texas that were once in remote locations – including dozens in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Urbanization upstream from dams increases the amount of runoff after an extremely heavy rainfall. Some dams may not be able to handle the volume, and that may pose a greater risk to life and property in neighborhoods downstream.
Texas has about 7,500 state-regulated dams; officials have identified 888 as "high hazard," meaning at least one person would probably be killed in a dam failure.
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