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The Texas Bullion Depository is a bullion depository based in Texas in the United States. It was the first state-administered depository to be established in the United States; previous depositories were either at federal level or private companies. [1] Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced it was open for business on June 6, 2018.
SafeClear Program. The SafeClear Program is a traffic program in the city of Houston, Texas, United States. The program requires that vehicles which are stalled due to any reason (engine troubles, out of gas, etc.) on Houston freeways be immediately towed. The purpose of the program is to reduce traffic congestion and to make freeways safer by ...
Addicks Reservoir is situated on the north side of Interstate 10. It extends slightly north of Clay Road and between Barker-Cypress Road to the west and Beltway 8/Sam Houston Tollway to the east. State Highway 6 (SH 6) bisects the reservoir north to south. In addition to the Reservoir's flood damage reduction mission, recreation and nature ...
NRG Park, formerly Reliant Park and Astrodomain, is a complex in Houston, named after the energy company NRG Energy. It is located on Kirby Drive at the South Loop West Freeway ( I-610 ). This complex of buildings encompasses 350 acres (1.4 km 2) of land and consists of four venues: NRG Stadium, NRG Center, NRG Arena and the NRG Astrodome .
2017 Arkema plant explosion. Coordinates: 29.9485°N 95.0223°W. The 2017 Arkema plant explosion was an industrial disaster that took place during Hurricane Harvey in Crosby, Texas. Flooding from the hurricane disabled the refrigeration system at the plant which manufactured organic peroxides. The unrefrigerated organic peroxides decomposed and ...
Bammel, Texas. Coordinates: 30°00′25″N 95°27′49″W. Bammel is an unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, United States. Bammel, eighteen miles north of downtown Houston at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1960 (FM 1960) and Kuykendahl Road in north central Harris County, was established after the neighboring towns of ...
Public Storage is an American international self storage company headquartered in Glendale, California, that is run as a real estate investment trust (REIT). It is the largest brand of self-storage services in the US. [2] In 2008, it was the largest of four publicly traded storage REITs. [3] There are more than 2,200 Public Storage self-storage ...
On January 24, 2020, a building at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing in northwest Houston, Texas, United States, exploded at 4:24 a.m. [1] [2] Debris was scattered as far as one-half mile (0.8 km), [3] and approximately 200 nearby houses and businesses were damaged. [4] Officials asked local residents to search for debris and body parts to ...
Safe household water storage. Safe household water storage is a critical component of a Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS) system being promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) worldwide in areas that do not have piped drinking water. In these areas it is not uncommon for drinking water to be stored in a pot, jar, crock or ...
The Johnson Space Center is the home of Mission Control and astronaut training. [3] The center opened in 1992 [4] replacing the former Visitor Center in Johnson Space Center Building 2. The museum is 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2) and displays over 400 space artifacts, including the Mercury 9, Gemini 5, and Apollo 17 space capsules.