Culvert & Drainage Infrastructure Problems
Collapsed culvert, blocked outfall, damaged headwall or an old drainage structure causing problems? OddGround helps connect difficult culvert and drainage infrastructure enquiries with relevant specialists.
Tell Us About Your Culvert ProblemNot every drainage problem needs a drain company.
Culverts and larger drainage structures can sit beneath farm tracks, private roads, driveways, fields, estates and commercial land, carrying streams or surface water beneath access routes and embankments.
When one fails, the problem can be much more substantial than a blocked domestic drain.
Pipes can collapse, headwalls can fail, outlets can erode, channels can become overwhelmed and water can begin washing away the surrounding ground or access route.
Older rural properties can also contain drainage infrastructure that has been altered, extended or forgotten over many years, making it difficult to know exactly what is happening underground.
OddGround is designed for these harder-to-place problems.
What do you need help with?
Start with the problem that most closely matches what is happening on your land or property.
Culvert Repair
Help finding specialists for damaged, deteriorating or failing culverts on private, agricultural, estate and commercial land.
Culvert repair →Collapsed Culverts
A failed culvert can restrict water flow, undermine access and create significant erosion or flooding problems.
Collapsed culverts →Blocked Culverts
Silt, vegetation, branches and debris can reduce capacity or completely obstruct a culvert.
Blocked culverts →Culvert Replacement
Where repair is no longer practical, replacement or substantial reconstruction may be required.
Culvert replacement →Culverts Under Private Roads
Problems with culverts beneath driveways, farm tracks, estate roads and private access routes.
Culverts beneath private roads →Culvert Headwall Repair
Cracked, displaced, undermined or collapsed headwalls at culvert entrances and outlets.
Headwall repair →Drainage Outfall Repair
Failed, eroded or damaged outfalls where drainage systems discharge into ditches, streams or watercourses.
Drainage outfall repair →Old Stone Culverts
Historic stone, brick or masonry culverts that have deteriorated, partially collapsed or become obstructed.
Old stone culverts →Scour & Erosion
Fast-moving water around culvert entrances, outlets and embankments can remove supporting ground and destabilise structures.
Culvert scour & erosion →Why culvert failures can become serious
A culvert may look like a relatively simple pipe or opening, but it forms part of a wider system involving flowing water, surrounding ground, access routes and sometimes substantial embankments.
Water can find another route
If a culvert becomes blocked or loses capacity, water may flow over a road or track, spread across surrounding land or begin cutting a new channel around the structure.
The ground above can become unstable
Damage beneath a road or track is not always obvious from the surface. Loss of material around a pipe or structure can eventually result in depressions, cracking or localised collapse.
Outlets and entrances can deteriorate
Concentrated water flow can scour soil and stone around an inlet or outlet. Over time this can undermine headwalls, expose pipework and damage adjoining banks.
Older culverts can be difficult to understand
Farms, estates and older rural properties sometimes contain stone, brick, concrete or pipe culverts installed at different times. Records may be limited and previous alterations may not be obvious.
Tell us what you're seeing.
You don't need to diagnose the culvert yourself. Useful descriptions might be as simple as:
What information is useful?
Tell us about the site
- Approximate location or postcode
- Whether it is beneath a road, track, field or driveway
- Whether a stream or watercourse passes through it
- What appears to have changed or failed
- Whether access for machinery may be difficult
Send anything you already have
- Photographs of both ends of the culvert
- Photos of damaged ground or access above it
- Approximate dimensions if known
- Survey or engineer's report
- Specification for remedial work if one already exists
Got a culvert problem and not sure who deals with it?
Describe what's happening and send photographs or existing reports where available. OddGround can help connect suitable enquiries with relevant independent specialists.
Tell Us About Your Culvert Problem