How To Use Culvert In A Sentence
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Murphy said he talked with canal officials about whether there was a way to temporarily rewater part of the canal for the event, and he showed them a drawing of the town's concept for putting up a dike so the area used for the event could be filled while the culvert area remained dry.
The Herald-Mail Online
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We found a grinding wheel during the dig, so one theory is that the water may have been pumped from the river through the culvert to power the machinery.
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New culverts likely will have to be placed in a new location, Douglas said.
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The figure also shows a little tensile stress at the roof center of larger culverts.
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It was not actually as cool as I had hoped in that all the old brickwork is up the dangerous channel (the way we didn't go) so it was basically just a really long, filthy culvert, and the river was foul, but I now know an awful lot about buried rivers.
May 10th, 2009
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Drainage facilities, such as perforated pipes, troughs or culverts, allow hydraulic filter bed cleaning.
8. Classification of roughing filters
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If you choose this as your option, then swales, culverts, and drain fields may need to be figured into your plans.
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Talking to the engineers, environmentalists and politicians responsible, I realised that here, where council engineers want to culvert more of it, we are ten years behind the times.
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The key points of polypropylene fiber concrete in and culvert works are also introduced.
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Effluent discharges are often made inconspicuous by buildings or the frequent disappearance of the watercourse into culverts.
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A nearby culvert, meant to carry away the sewage, is totally damaged.
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A fish pass was incorporated into the new culvert constructed over the Corroy River to allow passage for fish when river flows are low.
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A trickle of subterranean water, which fell on the plateau weeks before, collects in a culvert for the villagers.
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Thus, culverts stabilized with snow are not needed when the stream is already frozen solid.
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The debris including the bags and the timber was obstructing a good two-thirds of the bore of the culvert.
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The little River Quaggy has been liberated from decades of confinement in a concrete culvert and given a new naturalistic course; a home for wildlife and a delight for people.
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The distribution of soil pressure normal to the culvert periphery is plotted against the central angle in Figure 7.
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The map was a U. S. Geological Survey quadrangle chart large enough in scale to show every arroyo, hogan, windmill, and culvert.
THE FALLEN MAN
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Some residents are in the process of getting them relined but the culvert is not the responsibility of Southern Water.
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Usually used with an open invert, the Dur-A-Span culvert can promote fish passage even during the construction period if footings are prepared outside of the wetted perimeter.
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They also have to cut several miles of drain, installing several large culverts along the system.
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A group of local residents and business owners are calling on the council to urgently reopen a disused mill lade and culvert to its full capacity.
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Halfway to Lodz the windshield fell onto the driver and the motorbus plunged into a drainage culvert and rolled onto its side.
The Shell Collector : Stories
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For direct - burial long haul line . Bridge and culvert , Duct, Bullet - proof aerial deployment and LANs.
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Gower had been dragged some fifty yards to the culvert.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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At the hamlet's Milbank House, a lime, a conker and a turkey oak shade a stone culvert and set their seed and nuts.
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Sprawl and malls are filling in the vacant lots and woodlands where we used to play; rivers and streams are culverted, channelized, and barren; and the coasts, lakesides, and mountains are spotted with trophy homes and locked gates.
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This causes problems around culverts, overflow pipes, and other water conduits.
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We trapped bears during June-August each year with spring-activated Aldrich foot snares and culvert traps, and we entered the dens of radiocollared bears during January-March each year.
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This causes problems around culverts, overflow pipes, and other water conduits.
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He made his report following a motion that the stream be culverted.
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She has happy recollections of childhood life in the area and the freedom to roam before rivers were culverted and open land was developed.
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The station was 500,000 acres of almost virgin bush set astride the magnificent Culvert River, and abandoned for 15 years.
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Though considered a pest because of the culvert-clogging dams it builds on streams, the beaver is an ally in conserving valuable wetland habitat for declining amphibian populations, a University of Alberta study shows.
Archive 2007-01-01
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The metal corrugated pipe culverts have more advantage than normal concrete culvert especially in high - cold area.
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_culvertage_, [82] (a name of all things dreaded by both nations,) to attend in this expedition; and such force had this threat, and the hope of plunder in England, that a very great army was in a short time assembled.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
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For direct - burial long haul line . Bridge and culvert , Duct, bullet-proof aerial deployment and LANs.
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The flood would not have occurred if the stream had not been culverted or if a culvert of sufficient size had been installed.
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This is one of the drawbacks to corrugated metal culverts as well.
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And during the next 12 months up to six are likely to be culverted and filled in.
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As a result, the culverts may undergo excessive deformation or failure rendering the culverts unserviceable.
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The Road having big ditches in its middle and a water nullah (stream) also passing through this road having no bridge or culvert.
Booni People repair 4 KM long road on self Help basis
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Aggravating the problems is a pair of culverts through Provincial Road 205, which have been set at the wrong level.
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He allegedly swindled funds meant for building a culvert and a school.
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The standard culvert has sufficient cells to pass the discharge without significant afflux.
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A backhoe dug down to the damaged culvert in the bottom while a crew assembled another culvert up on top.
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Saw on the news tonight they found a waterlogged over-sized novelty green hat floating in the rising rainwater around the culvert on Stewart Road.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Sweet jeebus, lookit this mess!
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According to the 1996 Highway Road Humps Regulations they must not be built on or within 25 metres of bridges, subways, culverts or tunnels.
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A culvert stabilized with snow was the first structure tested for small streams.
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By Monday, the work resumes with the placement of culverts above and below the site to route ditchwater into the gently sloping forest cover below the road.
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The tanks, roads, culverts and lagoon opening have all suffered through the lack of maintenance.
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Variables considered in the analysis were culvert size, location, and wall thickness.
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In that year, Marshal Wade employed his army to construct a road by way of Harlaw and Cholterford, following for thirty miles the line of the old Roman Wall, the materials of which he used to construct his "agger" and culverts.
The Life of Thomas Telford
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It is asphalted and the gradient runs south to north up to the village temple, except near the village pond where a culvert has raised the road surface, upsetting the natural gradient.
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Of course, if I got my planning permission, I'd have to divert yon beck and culvert it away from your place.
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Kirkby Stephen town centre was also flooded along with other parts of the region as culverts and streams burst under pressure.
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It also involves dismounting to clear bridges, under bridges, overpasses, signs, culverts and guard rails.
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I fished from the top of the culvert as Janice made her way along the bank and cast her line.
New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman
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The river is now culverted beneath the largely Victorian town.
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The South Fork of the Elkhorn River goes under the road in a culvert.
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A culvert has also been opened up below one set of steps and all it would take is for one child to trip and fall head first into it.
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Thus, under winter conditions, a culvert must be stabilized on both ends using rocks or other techniques and must be covered with appropriate backfill to provide adequate bearing capacity.
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They checked culverts, trash bins and washes.
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J. O. Wilder, a young surveyor,* wrote, There was one large snowslide at Camp 4, where there were two gangs of Chinese for Tunnels 11 and 12, also a gang of culvert men.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
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In between, it runs through woodlands, through unreclaimed marsh, wild in culverts and well-behaved beside suburban backyards.
War for the Oaks
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Earth pressure distribution around concrete box culverts has been the subject of a few studies.
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Or it might have happened later, when the creek was culverted and the woods cut down to make way for subdivisions and shopping malls.
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These criminal acts will retard progress and push up costs of building the road as the demolished culverts will have to be replaced.
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As a result, the culverts may undergo excessive deformation or failure rendering the culverts unserviceable.
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Water surged up through ruptures in the pavement, gushed up through culverts and overflowed into the street.
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It reached a concrete culvert and I expected the egret – all angles and points – to swoop up and away on great sheets for wings.
Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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Using wire mesh culverts may be an inexpensive and efficient way to allow water flow through such materials.
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On every edge of the suburbs were hayfields, waste lands, ditches and culverts.
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Sprawl and malls are filling in the vacant lots and woodlands where we used to play; rivers and streams are culverted, channelized, and barren; and the coasts, lakesides, and mountains are spotted with trophy homes and locked gates.
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The cart-track crossed by a brick culvert and climbed the opposite slope to a five-barred gate in the thorn hedge.
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All that saved the house from a yearly flood was a culvert under the driveway that led the upslope water safely away into an old irrigation ditch and the aspen grove below.
Bird Cloud
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Drivers often don't even realize when they cross streams, nor that the culverts built to carry those streams might pose problems to endangered salmon and trout species.
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He called upon all his people who by the duty of their tenure or allegiance were obliged to defend their lord and king, and in his writs stimulated them by the same threats of _culvertage_ which had been employed against him.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
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A fish pass was incorporated into the new culvert constructed over the Corroy River to allow passage for fish when river flows are low.
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Our gabions are made from prefabricated Class III zinc-coated 9 or 11 gauge welded wire mesh fabric with a 3’ x 3’ spacing, and may be field cut to fit curves, culverts, or angles.
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However, the size and weight of concrete box culverts can make transportation and handling a problem.
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The state listened and looked into two techniques: pipe-jacking, or using brute force to push the culverts into place under the road, and pipe-ramming, which is essentially a sideways pile driver.
Kitsap Sun Stories
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What appears to be the problem to us is the size of a culvert underneath the road into the ornamental pond.
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But since the city wants to use water diverted from Bradford Beck - which is culverted under the city centre - experts have been working on ways of making sure the river's quality is up to scratch.
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The outside rings are made of precast concrete, similar to those usually seen in culverts.
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Culvert says that they haven't treated enough hepatitis patients to make any sweeping statements.
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We dug the culvert out clearing all the debris that was found in the culvert.
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Labour councillor Andy Mudd, who represents Keighley West Ward on the council, said he had been swamped with calls from members of the public concerned about broken culverts and blocked gullies.
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There were more accidents, more trucks, which had collided with trees, culverts, or run off the road.
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A stream golloped through a concrete culvert beneath the road.
Main Street
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Ironically, all that culverting work bounced back in his face, literally, for when we did have a heavy storm, the overflow went the other way and flushed several thousand pounds' worth of rainbow trout into the beck.
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Singh allegedly swindled funds meant for building a culvert on the Manikpur nullah and a school.
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There are also plans to dig a culvert to carry water if the drainage ditch is full but he doubted there was enough room to dig one within the width of the road.
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According to the 1996 Highway Road Humps Regulations they must not be built on or within 25 metres of bridges, subways, culverts or tunnels.
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As this plan plays out in my head, pachouli has another idea, and braps me right before the culvert.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Mr Chipungu said in an interview in Lusaka that due to weak culverts, the bridge, which connects Luangwa to the rest of the country, was caving in and might collapse any time.
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It was a big drain, like a culvert under a road, but the storm waters must be heavy here.
SNOWLINE
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Culverts - metal, plastic or concrete pipes installed under roadbeds to channel runoff - are not always the best solution for drainage, but they are common and sometimes necessary.
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The plans include culverting part of Willowbeck and the agency has now withdrawn its objection, saying it is satisfied the development ‘will not have a significant effect on flooding in Northallerton’.
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With the origin at culvert center, the central angle is measured clockwise from the vertical center line.
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Below the football players and dog-walkers of Marine Park is a culvert that, in theory, still carries the freshet which once thinned the salt water of the Stromme Kill.
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I have agreed details to culverting streams, adjacent to the M4 motorway, to allow the canal to be extended over these watercourses.
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He directed the officials to complete the construction of culverts and link roads and ensure the proper drinking water supply.
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- It meanders west, crossing Channel Lane and moving on to the Seventh and Putnam Street intersection where it makes a 75-degree turn south through a long underground culvert, emerging again behind the Dyson-Baudo Recreation complex on the Marietta College campus.
The Marietta Times
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Where I grew up in Ohio, we saw crawdads, or crayfish, in the culverted, sewage-scented ‘creeks’ and would no sooner eat one than we would kitty litter.
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Finally in February 1875 the government called tenders for the ‘forming, building culverts, making catch drains and metalling on the road through Coromandel Valley’.
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The outside rings are made of precast concrete, similar to those usually seen in culverts. - via [...]
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The project also required construction of a 29.5-foot fill over an old concrete box culvert.
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Where I grew up in Ohio, we saw crawdads, or crayfish, in the culverted, sewage-scented ‘creeks’ and would no sooner eat one than we would kitty litter.
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The drama in Luddenden, Calderdale, followed a night of torrential rain which had left a mill dam dangerously overflowing when debris partially blocked a culvert.
