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Hi,
Can you explain the installation process for a series of box culverts?
Thanks
Gail
This is not really my area of expertise but I can give you an answer that is generally correct.
Normally they will build a coffer dam to stop the flow through the stream bed. Then either build a temporary ditch for the stream to flow around or pump it depending on the size of stream. Then dig out the bad or unsuitable material from the stream bed and starting installing the culvert.
In a nutshell that is what happens.
Bryan P. Lindsey, PE
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Bryan P. Lindsey, P.E.
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I am an expert in Civil Engineering with a degree form the Georgia Institute of Technology with 12 years experience in the following fields of Civil engineering; Transportation, General civil, Civil site design, drainage, project management and many others.
Experience
I have 12 years experience in multiple fields of civil engineering. I spent the first four years of my career in the transportation industry by being a design engineer for prominent transpotation firm in Atlanta. I moved from there to civil site design and worked as a project manager for the next six years and currently I am the Director of Transportation for same firm.
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Member of American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE), Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
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Bachelors of Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996.
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