Drainage Service Area in East Texas

Tyler and the surrounding Smith County communities share a soil profile, sandy loam over a dense clay subsoil, that produces the same underlying drainage behavior. The details differ considerably from town to town: lot size, terrain, age of construction, proximity to Lake Palestine and how much established landscaping has to be worked around.

Tyler, Texas

Tyler is the seat of Smith County and the regional center of East Texas, sitting where the Pineywoods meet the Post Oak Savannah on rolling terrain. Its established neighborhoods, mature tree canopy and sandy loam over claypan soils produce a very particular set of drainage problems.

Whitehouse, Texas

Whitehouse sits just south of Tyler and has grown steadily as a residential community for families working in the city. Much of that growth is subdivision development placed on rolling, wooded Pineywoods ground, which creates a recognizable pattern of drainage complaints.

Bullard, Texas

Bullard sits south of Tyler on the Smith and Cherokee county line and has grown quickly as families move out of the city for larger lots. Those larger lots, on rolling wooded terrain, change drainage work in ways that smaller subdivision properties do not.

Lindale, Texas

Lindale sits north of Tyler along the corridor toward Interstate 20 and has seen substantial new subdivision growth. Newer construction brings its own distinct drainage profile, quite different from the established landscaping problems found in older Tyler neighborhoods.

Flint, Texas

Flint sits southwest of Tyler, close to Lake Palestine, and that proximity shapes drainage there more than anywhere else in Smith County. Lots that slope toward water, seasonal lake levels and steep approaches to the shore all add conditions that inland properties do not face.

Chandler, Texas

Chandler lies west of Tyler in Henderson County, near the western reaches of Lake Palestine. It is a smaller community with a mix of in town residential streets, lake area properties and rural acreage, and drainage needs vary noticeably across those three settings.

Troup, Texas

Troup is a small community southeast of Tyler, out in the Post Oak Savannah country where the dense pine forest gives way to more open oak woodland and grassland. It is a mix of older in town homes and surrounding rural property, and both bring their own drainage conditions.

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