U.S. Department of Homeland Security

06/24/2024 | Press release | Archived content

Levees and Dams Fact Sheet

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The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) partners with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (USACE-ERDC) to research and assess communities' vulnerabilities to flood hazards, to increase community resilience by improved emergency response planning, and simulating different types of failures to different components of flood infrastructure systems.