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Keeping It Simple: Easy Ways to Help Wildlife Along Roads

Photo Gallery for Diverting Low-Water Flows to a Culvert Enables Fish Passage



photo of box culverts with ridge across 3 and 1/2 boxes to direct low water into the remaining 1/2 box
Photo by Wesley King
During low flows, water is channeled into only one of the box culverts.

photo of inside of the culvert with the sill to keep water levels at sufficient depth for the darter
Photo by Wesley King
A view from the inside of the culvert with the sill to keep water levels at sufficient depth for the darter.

Updated: 12/12/2012
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