Culvert Bridge Comparison photos from new to gone!

Below is the culvert bridge right after we put it in with the splashway next to it...looks nice!

Below is the culvert bridge washed out! The splashway is under water!

You can just see the concrete culverts behind the weeds.

Fred and I were both a bit discouraged but we learned that the culverts we used weren't big enough. We have a much larger culvert we can use. We didn't want too because it is going to be very difficult to move it and place it but we now know that we will have to do it before we start on the house or else we will have no way to get across the dry creek bed if we get torrential rains like we did last night. So even though this flooding today is a bit discouraging it showed us what we actaully need to do to the dry creek bed. A learning experience!

It is nice to know that where we are going to build the house will be high and dry!