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The Center Road Culvert is a historic stone culvert on Center Road at Mallory Brook in East Montpelier, Vermont.It was built in 1899 as an early project after the establishment of the Vermont Highway Commission in 1898, and is a well-preserved example of dry-laid stone box culvert.
Culverts come in many sizes and shapes including round, elliptical, flat-bottomed, open-bottomed, pear-shaped, and box-like constructions. The culvert type and shape selection is based on a number of factors including requirements for hydraulic performance, limitations on upstream water surface elevation, and roadway embankment height.
The St. Alban's Bay Culvert is functionally a concrete box culvert. However it has 40-foot-long (12 m) headwalls faced with random ashlar of local granite. This facing is about 9 inches (23 cm) thick, disguising a core of mortared lake boulders. The walls rise 2 feet 9 inches (84 cm) over the height of the roadbed to form a low railing.
Hornell officials are planning a new Canisteo Street box culvert over Spencer Creek after getting $1.5 million from the state. Here's the timeline.
A significant section of Newberry Hill Road will be closed from June 20 to September 3 as the Kitsap County Department of Public Works replaces a deteriorated culvert on the west fork of Little ...
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Concrete box culvert: Former listings. Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Brielle Road Bridge over the Glimmer Glass: 1938, 1950 April 25, 2008
The size of the culverts (often concrete pipes) is usually selected to allow the water to flow below the roadway and provide a dry crossing surface for most of the year. During periods of high water flow (e.g. spring runoff or flash floods), water will flow over the top of the crossing, as the culverts are not large enough to carry these flood ...