culvert

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Humans have choked off salmon habitat with dams and culverts.

From Seattle Times

DWP crews are racing to clean out clogged culverts, divert excessive runoff into pasturelands and sage plains, and build berms to steer flood water from small towns straddling U.S.

From Los Angeles Times

She said railway officials were concerned that plugging the culverts would send water scouring the railway property, “and we could have had a track give way there.”

From Los Angeles Times

Ahead of the storms, residents were told “to prepare for flood conditions,” and county staffers worked to clear culverts and provide sandbags, county Chief Executive Leonard Hernandez said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.

From Los Angeles Times

He will announce that the first $196 million of a $1 billion fund to replace fish-blocking road culverts is now available and local and tribal conservation departments can apply for grants next fiscal year.

From Seattle Times