Texas turned an abandoned golf course into a 200-acre flood-control landscape; while still unfinished during Hurricane Harvey it held 100 million gallons of water

When Hurricane Harvey brought historic rainfall to the Houston area, residents of Clear Lake City, Texas, feared the worst. For Spyros Varsos, who had lived in the community for 50 years, the rising water was especially worrying.

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