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Council approves engineering contracts to assess Elm Street culvert collapse and shore building foundations

Tyler City Council · February 12, 2026
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Summary

Council authorized IMEG Consulting ($148,805 plus $20,000 contingency) for building foundation remediation design and HDR ($141,500) for an engineering assessment of the Elm Street culvert collapse that undermined a nearby building column; staff said full repair could extend into 2027.

The Tyler City Council authorized two engineering agreements on contracts to study and address a partial culvert collapse beneath Elm Street that undermined a nearby building column.

Cameron Williams, director of engineering services, described the collapse as a partial failure that undermined a column supporting a building near Bethel Church. “There we did discover a collapse of partial of this culvert, which undermined 1 of the columns for some of those buildings that at that…

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