Примери за culvert

• Fred thought he heard a shout as they passed under the culvert. 

• Poor lads, they had been sitting on an old culvert with water up to their waists. 

• Presently an officer rode his horse down to the stream at the head of the culvert. 

• The road gang put in a culvert through which flowed the drainage from a hill on the opposite side of the road. 

• They all agreed to meet down by the culvert. 

• Excessive sediment loads can lead to high water-treatment costs and large expenditures on culvert, ditch and reservoir maintenance.

• In many cases, this involves diverting ephemeral streams from hillsides and road culverts onto agricultural land.

• Other culverts, such as the one found in 1992, were likely used along the length of the causeway.

• At least one subterranean culvert was built into the causeway to divert water under the walkway and thus prevent flooding on the north side.

• Another possibility is that a change in hydrology in this area rendered the causeway and associated culverts unnecessary, allowing the areas north of the causeway to be occupied.

• I have been told today that the extra cost of building creeps above the cost of culverting would be in the region of £210,000.

• But these culverts and outfalls are not so easily discoverable as are those that fall into rivers dealt with by the catchment boards.

• In some cases, this was exacerbated by blockages to culvert screens.

• The main culvert is now badly silted and will not pass storm flood flows.

• The town council has almost completed its scheme for culverting and filling in a first section of the canal.

• First, culverts would rule out for ever the possibility of these 12 miles ever being restored as a navigable waterway.

• It is now culverted for much of its length, but this is a policy of respair.

• There was a flood, and a culvert burst, and a child was washed into the culvert.

• The trouble is that there are an enormous number of culverts and it is extremely difficult to keep a watch on all of them.

• Some natural channels and culverts could not cope with the resulting run-off.