The Chronicle reports that the day before Hurricane Harvey made landfall--this would be on August 24--that the Corps had an internal forecast that the storm would fill Barker and Addicks to record levels and flood neighborhoods on the western side of the reservoir, and then the very next day, on Friday the 25th, the Corps forecasted that both Addicks and Barker would spill beyond government-owned land, in the Gulf nearby neighborhoods.
Culberson discusses the Corps' predictions about flooding before Hurricane Harvey.
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