re: #53 jaunte

I assumed this meant they owned the land within the reservoir.

From the linked article:

Addicks and Barker were originally built solely to protect against flooding in Buffalo Bayou that would impact west and downtown Houston. The Army Corps built them in the 1940s in an area that was pretty much totally undeveloped. The agency had hoped to buy even more land to build the reservoirs on, plus extra land as an additional buffer, but that never happened.