Bigger is better when it comes to culverts. We have them all over up here. A little ways up our road the town skimped on one that was designed to get water to the other side of the road before a low point a few hundred yards further down. It did fine for regular storms but when we got 7 inches in a day this spring it just couldn't move enough through the pipe. Washed out the road at the bottom and took out a neighbors driveway culvert. He had to drive across a 10 acre field and open a stone wall to go to work the next day.
I'd find some similar stream sizes near you and measure the culvert diameter on driveways that haven't been repaired recently. :lol:
charles todd said: (quoted from post at 20:20:40 10/29/08) Ron-MO, nice job on the bridge. I like the bridge idea with a low-water for heavy traffic. A sturdy culvert can handle both. The culvert will most likely be cheaper, but not as "cool". My creek/stream is smaller than yours I believe. I have some pics I took today of the dozer low-water crossing. I will try to post them tonight.
If I do a culvert I believe if I park one tractor with a loader on one side with some dirt, and have one on the other. Then I can prep the stream bed with gravel and erosion cloth and roll er' in. This way I can work both sides until done without an alternate crossing. Later I plan to put in two or three more for secondary crossings to access pastures and in case the main has a blow out.
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