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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Workers cleared some debris from the culverts running beneath the park entrance before last weekend's storm, but installation of a temporary crossing, which is part of a plan submitted to the state Department of Housing and Community Development, cannot proceed without the required signatures. The Infrastructure Products Group supplies ready-mix concrete, crushed and sized basaltic aggregates, dune sand, concrete pipe and box culverts primarily to the construction industry in Hawaii, and manufactures and markets concrete and steel poles for highway, street and outdoor area lighting and for traffic signals nationwide. Engineers developed a safe passage by expanding roadsides; clearing and grubbing ambush areas; constructing new roads; expanding culverts and culvert heads; and hardening the road surface with chip-rock, concrete and (or) asphalt. |
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