Culvert Tune Up

[jinman]

I agree with GaryE. In a little town you should take responsibility for the culvert yourself, even though they "technically" have responsibility. I'd just bite the bullet and fix it.

Culverts in my Texas county are the homeowner's responsibility, so I'm used to that. The county sets the specs and will tell you what size you need based on water flow, but you have to do the job and maintain it.

After you fix the culvert, you might drop a line to the town board to let them know what you've done. Murphy's law says they show up to "fix" it after you've redone it and really mess up your job. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[tinsnip]

Roger that. Except, in an extension of Murphy's law, if I told them what I'd done, they'd accuse me of something-even if it was done to spec. They have rights to like 25 feet from the road center. Think I'll just fix it and hope it stays that way.

 

[EddieWalker]

I had a similar problem at a house I used to own. I called and talked to people who are responsible for the county roads and was told they were backloged and didn't know when they could get to it. After a few months, it got worse and started overflowing during heavy rains and eroding to the road. It was just about to the road when I was saw them fixing a different problem. I brought the guy in charge over and explained to him how the water was about to start destroying the pavement and that they really should do something before it got worse. He called in to his boss and ended up rebuilding the whole thing that day.

Eddie