burying culverts for driveway over roadside ditch

beenthere · Dec 13, 2005

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 · Dec 13, 2005

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 · Dec 13, 2005

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 · Dec 13, 2005

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 · Dec 13, 2005

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 · Dec 13, 2005

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 · Dec 13, 2005

</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 · Dec 13, 2005

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 · Dec 13, 2005

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.