Sentence examples for huge culverts from inspiring English sources
It has now shifted gears and is working on replacing or repairing some of the lake's 32 huge culverts and conducting a further analysis of the dike.
The first phase will fix 3.4 mile-long Muddy River and its shorelines, alleviate flooding, restore the river habitat, and "daylight" parts of the watercourse that have been hidden in huge culverts for decades.
A huge culvert penetrates the abdomen of a nearly life-size concrete Madonna that was in his controversial installation unveiled at the Museum of Contemporary Artin Los Angeles in 1997.
The poles are attached to metal gates that have been built into the levee, and these gates lead to a set of huge concrete culverts.
It is "frustrating to see all of that innovation that was brought to bear on the problem," he said, "and then something as simple as putting a grate over a culvert becomes a huge problem".
The flood caused "sheer devastation", according to residents, as it poured from a culvert and down a side street, ripping huge chunks out of the road surface and destroying the road.
Some are as huge as the multibillion-dollar effort to increase the height of levees and flood walls in New Orleans because of projections of rising sea levels and stronger storms to come; others as mundane as resizing drainage culverts in Vermont, where Hurricane Irene damaged about 2,000 culverts.
"We're actually relocating culverts," Mr. Pelletier said.
But dams and clogged culverts have blocked many spawning routes.
The program was intended to keep insurgents from planting bombs in roadside drainage culverts by covering the culverts with thick metal grates.
