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Irving outlines tornado response and awards $23.8M contract for West Irving Creek channel work
Summary
City staff detailed the March 4 tornado response — evacuations, temporary sheltering and assistance — and presented a multi‑phase West Irving Creek channel improvement project; staff recommended awarding a $23,753,584 construction contract funded in part by a TWDB grant and 0% loan.
City emergency and public‑works officials briefed the Irving City Council on the city’s March 4 severe weather response and on a planned multi‑phase channel improvement project on West Irving Creek, including a proposed construction contract for the project’s first phase.
Jason Carrier, Irving’s emergency management coordinator, told the council the storm included a brief EF‑1 tornado with winds the National Weather Service estimated in a range that would have reached EF‑2 with only a small increase. Carrier said emergency responders opened Georgia Farrow as a temporary shelter early the morning after the event, coordinated with the American Red Cross and other nonprofits to provide food, case management and animal services, and evacuated a heavily damaged apartment complex called Tree Country. Carrier said roughly 85 units in that complex — about 340 residents, including three…
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