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culvert

A waterway for rainwater or other runoff;may be a ditch or a pipe.If ditches along the side of a road channel runoff,then property owners must install culverts under driveways in order to prevent the formation of dams. One must usually obtain highway or road department permission to install a culvert because the location will generally be in a road right-of-way.
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However, drainage authorities do have statutory powers to require such works to be carried out, and this includes a power to require the culverting of a watercourse.
Environmental search can highlight unseen problems; in association ... by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Work, due for completion this spring, has now started on a range of improvements, including: Partial culverting of Sneyd Brook, nearest to properties in Jenner Close and Bloxwich Lane.
Black Country News: Pupils' pathway to boost safety; WALSALL by Birmingham Mail (England)
The destruction of soil structure by over-grazing,heavy machinery and culverting upriver causes rapid run-off of rain water which floods areas downstream.
LETTER: Flood of worry by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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