burying culverts for driveway over roadside ditch

[beenthere]

Hopefully you can landscape it afterwards to not have the standing water in the ditch.

Keep us posted and with some pics as to how it goes for you.

 

[ym2610]

just be glad you don't live in Alabama, I had to put up a $1000. dollar bond, build the drive way with the right slope using concrete, it had to be inspected before I could get my money back, doing all on a very tight budget, than took over a month to get my money back, after it was approved.Robert

 

[Panache]

ym2610,
What authority was telling you this and is this on a US road, State , county or city? I have seen none of this type of thing in Coosa co.

 

[rlee6]

This time I will post photos. Last time I sought your help here was when I cleared 2 acres with a loader. I brought a camera with me but the batteries went dead.

Eddie,
I will ask around if anybody sells sloped precast concrete caps in my area.

Thanks.

 

[ym2610]

Panache it was the state, I live on HWY 72 and because I was building a drive way on the state right of way, they get to tell you how. I didn't like it, but what could I do. Robert

 

[Panache]

rlee6
When I was looking at concrete ends for pipe, the company I was talking to told me they had some seconds for 1/2 price.

 

[MODiesel]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( That's what I suspected. However, the way mine is located, it would serve as a ramp to launch them over the drive, down the hill, and into a deep dropoff into the creek, unless they hit a tree first.)</font>

That sounds almost exactly like the way our driveway is oriented. If you miss the driveway, it's a long way down! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Here are some pics of the ditch I had to cross, the culvert utilized, and the fill process. The culvert is two sections of 20ft 18in diameter plastic pipe. I used '2in minus' limestone gravel as fill [commonly used for roadbeds around here]. If I recall correctly, it took over 30ton to completely cover the culvert and level things up to the road.

Regards,
Jay

 

[BB_TX]

Eddie - My place is on a state hwy in Fannin county and I can't remember seeing a concreted end anywhere in the area. However, I travel two county roads, two FM roads, and a state hwy in Collin county to get there, and there have been a number of new ones installed in recent years that do have the concrete ends. So it may vary by county, although you would expect it to be a state regulation. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[FL4400]

On every FDOT project I have ever done in Florida I had to pour a concrete apron around the slope of the culverts and then place steel pipes across the openings to keep children and animals from crawling inside the pipes.

 

[rlee6]

Would you kindly explain to me how to do the concrete apron, especialy how to make it round? Thanks.