In Case it Ever Rains Again, This Flooding Problem into San Angelo's Affluent Neighborhood is Getting Fixed

SAN ANGELO, TX — San Angeloans who live in the quiet, affluent, and rural neighborhood of Butler Farms off of Foster Rd. in southeast San Angelo have dealt with flooding of the only street into or out of their subdivision for years. 

The City of San Angelo is currently working to fix that flooding problem.  The issue began because there is only one single street giving access into the subdivision. It was built that way when Butler Farms was outside the city limits. The City annexed the area since.

As we reported earlier, At the top of the 2017-2022 Capital Improvement Plan was a proposed construction fix to current drainage issues along Foster Road.

Specifically, the proposed project is located on the stretch of Foster Road that passes through the Bentwood area near Butler Farms between Loop 306 and the subdivision.

In the Capital Improvement Plan, the city identified $1.6 million to address the flooding issue on Foster Rd. 

In March of 2017, City Councilman Lane Carter held a town hall meeting on infrastructure priorities.  

Several Butler Farms residents were in attendance at that meeting, many of whom live on River Valley Lane, Whitney Street, and the surrounding area.

Most of the residents voiced their concerns over trouble traveling after heavy rainfalls, as well as paying high property taxes, despite no official fix to the ongoing problem.  

One attendee stated, “This is something that should have been taken care of three years ago, before another 40 houses went up and another five houses went up on Whitney St. That is a total of 18,000 gallons per inch, per house that is flooding my neighborhood.” Frustrated, he added, “If the City Council doesn’t pass this, our next step will be to go to a county judge.”

That turned out to be unnecessary.  

Butler Farms grew slowly over the decades and the more houses were built there. As additional streets were paved, the worse the entrance road flooding became.  

While it rarely rains in San Angelo, when there is a down pour in the area around Foster Rd. and Butler Farms, the road floods and residents have to drive through flood water covering the road to get in or out of the neighborhood. 

City crews have constructed a temporary road around the flood prone area while they install drainage pipes under the roadway.  

Once construction of the drainage feature is completed, the city is scheduled to repave the roadway.  

The project is designed to solve the flooding problem on Foster Rd. between Loop 306 and Butler Farms.  

If it ever rains again.