A bigger, more paved city in the Sabine basin, Longview’s drainage calls often come from runoff arriving off the street and neighboring lots. We intercept it and defend the house.
Tell us what your yard is doing and we’ll come take a look — no charge.
Longview, about thirty-five miles east of Tyler in Gregg County, is a bigger, more built-up city in the Sabine River basin — and that development is its own drainage factor. More pavement, older neighborhoods, and heavier runoff change the equation.
In a more urban setting, a lot of the ground is covered — roofs, driveways, streets, parking — so rain that once soaked in now runs off, faster and in greater volume, and lands on whatever’s downhill. Older Longview neighborhoods were often built before modern drainage standards, so yards inherit runoff from up the block and from streets that shed toward them. The underlying soils are the familiar East Texas sandy-over-clay, so the water that does soak in still stalls on the clay.
The calls here skew toward water arriving from off the property: a yard that floods because it sits low on the block, a driveway that channels the street’s runoff to the garage, a back corner collecting everyone’s water. The fixes are catch basins and channel drains to intercept incoming flow, French drains for the saturated ground, and grading to defend the house — and honest expectations about what you can control on your lot versus what’s coming from the public right-of-way.
Whatever the yard is doing, we bring the full range to Longview:
A lot of Longview’s housing predates modern subdivision drainage standards, so the yards inherited a system that was never really designed — and in a built-up city, much of the water arriving at your lot started somewhere else. A street that crowns toward your driveway, a neighbor’s regrade that sends flow your way, a back corner that quietly collects half the block: these are the Longview calls. The honest part of the assessment is separating what you can control on your own property from what’s coming off the public right-of-way, and building the interceptor drains, catch basins, and grading that defend your house from both. We’ll tell you plainly where your lot ends and the city’s drainage begins.
Because so much Longview water arrives from the street or uphill lots, we spend real time at the assessment tracing where it actually comes from — walking the block during or right after a rain when we can, or reading the grades and gutters when we can’t. Knowing the true source is what lets us put the interceptor in the right place instead of chasing the puddle around the yard.
We cover Longview and the surrounding Gregg County neighborhoods for the full range of residential drainage work. Standing water, a flooding driveway, or water pushing toward the foundation — call (903) 228-3172 for a free look.
Free on-site drainage assessments across Tyler and Smith County. We’ll tell you what’s actually causing the water and what it takes to fix it.