East Texas

From Staff Reports

The city of Tyler released a short list of streets that tend to flood in heavy rainfall.

City officials are urging motorists to be careful when driving through these areas, as storms produced by Hurricane Gustav through East Texas over next few days could dump heavy rain.

The streets are as follows:

East Erwin Street, from High Street to Fleishel Street

High Street Bridge, near East Erwin

Fleishel Street Bridge, near East Erwin

Douglas Street, from Houston Street to Front Street

Bonner Street underpass

Greg Morgan, director of Utilities and Public Works, said Tyler doesn’t have a large number of streets that flood, and the ones that do are usually in low-lying areas where creeks may exceed their banks and flood streets if storms are intense enough.

Morgan said the Bonner Street underpass tends to flood briefly due to an undersized drainage system within the railroad right-of-way.

“Border Street makes a convenient one-block detour around the underpass,” he said.

Morgan said city Street Department crews will use barricades where necessary during the anticipated storms.

And, with Tropical Storm Gustav poised to enter the city, Longview officials today issued a list of roadways that are known to flood:

Nelson at Green intersection
Green at Cotton intersection
High at Cotton intersection
Spur 63 at South intersection
Green Street Bridge
High Street Bridge
Cotton at the Grace Street Bridge
Dumas at Tenneryville intersection
Brent at Tenneryville intersection
Lafamo at Tenneryville intersection
Harley Ridge at Tenneryville intersection
Lincoln at Avenue B intersection
W. Pliler Precise at Bridge
Graystone at Syble intersection
Tanglewood Road area
Springhill Road bridges
Marshall Avenue at the Grace Creek Bridge
Stamper Park Neighborhood
Sabine Street at Augusta intersection
Richardson/Caldwell at Fuller
Red Oak Baptist Church at MLK
Timpson at Davis intersection
Marshall Avenue at Benbrook intersection
Level at Hutchings intersection
Fourth Street at Timpson intersection
Fourth Street at Oden intersection
Mobberly at Melton intersection
Mobberly at Timpson intersection
Melton at Green intersection
Fisher at Old. Hwy 80 intersection
Hawkins at McCann intersection
Enterprise at Marshall intersection
Owings at Twelfth Street intersection
Reel at Buccaneer intersection
Fuller at Richardson intersection
Rockwall at Marshall intersection
Dean at Maple intersection
Mobberly at Cotton intersection
Dean at Clover intersection
Lafayette at Madison intersection to Page Rd.
Magnolia at Christie intersection
Lois Jackson Park on Bill Owens
W. Loop 281 at LeTourneau
Avenue B at Fairmont intersection

Updated Monday, Sept. 1, 2008 at 10:23 p.m. CDT