Ooooh, shiney. Sorry, I couldn't resist. The stainless steel culvert is being assembled today. It came in pieces...you don't just toss a 14x60-foot culvert on the back of your flatbed and drive down the highway. This baby puts our rusty old 2x8-foot culvert to shame. But, the old one lasted since the early 70s and was still working, though not well.
Do you see the men in their orange safety shirts in the upper left of the picture for scale?
You can see the framework being built for the wing walls. I have learned firsthand how important these structures are. When the neighbor's tree fell on our concrete-block wing wall and cracked it, it did not take long for the creek to cut a new channel through that crack during the height of the rainy season. More concrete will be poured after the forms are completed to finish those walls.
You might notice that dirty, old pipe that is lying on top of the culvert. That is our main water line from the well to the house. Still no electric power hooked up yet though. And, just to give you an idea of the size of Bjorgen Creek, the creek is flowing through a one-foot-diameter flexible pipe during the construction (so the water does not become laden with sediment). But, DFW believes native salmon, if they ever choose to jump up the nine feet from streambed to culvert downstream from us, will very much like the 14-foot-diameter culvert. I wonder if Billy Frank Jr. would agree?
Click on the pictures below to enlarge them.
Do you see the men in their orange safety shirts in the upper left of the picture for scale?
You can see the framework being built for the wing walls. I have learned firsthand how important these structures are. When the neighbor's tree fell on our concrete-block wing wall and cracked it, it did not take long for the creek to cut a new channel through that crack during the height of the rainy season. More concrete will be poured after the forms are completed to finish those walls.
You might notice that dirty, old pipe that is lying on top of the culvert. That is our main water line from the well to the house. Still no electric power hooked up yet though. And, just to give you an idea of the size of Bjorgen Creek, the creek is flowing through a one-foot-diameter flexible pipe during the construction (so the water does not become laden with sediment). But, DFW believes native salmon, if they ever choose to jump up the nine feet from streambed to culvert downstream from us, will very much like the 14-foot-diameter culvert. I wonder if Billy Frank Jr. would agree?
Click on the pictures below to enlarge them.
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