diff --git a/google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/BigQuerySnippets.java b/google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/BigQuerySnippets.java
index f0c91d62344c..0569b3ef82cf 100644
--- a/google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/BigQuerySnippets.java
+++ b/google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/bigquery/snippets/BigQuerySnippets.java
@@ -383,6 +383,8 @@ public long writeFileToTable(String datasetName, String tableName, Path csvPath,
     // Write data to writer
     try (OutputStream stream = Channels.newOutputStream(writer)) {
       Files.copy(csvPath, stream);
+    } finally {
+      writer.close();
     }
     // Get load job
     Job job = writer.getJob();