Installing a Culvert Pipe

Before and after how to video featuring a creek culvert installation.

A culvert pipe is a channel that enables water to flow under a road from one side to the other. Culverts are usually embedded and covered with dirt.

A culvert may be a bridge-like structure designed to allow heavy equipment or farming implements to cross over a waterway while enabling necessary passage for the water.

Culverts are used across many applications including as crossing drains at roadsides and also to pass water at creek crossings. Culverts are mostly constructed of materials including reinforced concrete or non-reinforced concrete), galvanized steel, aluminum, and high-density plastics.

Culverts come in many forms and sizes and a variety of shapes including round, elliptical, flat-bottom, pear-shaped, and boxy. The culvert form and material and type and shape selection vary depending on many variables including hydraulic performance, upstream water surface elevation, and embankment height.