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  2. Culvert - Wikipedia

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    Culvert with secure headwall in Bromsgrove, England Stone culvert in Haapsalu, Estonia Steel culvert with a plunge pool below A multiple culvert assembly in Italy Precast concrete box culvert Large box culvert on Rio Monterroso. A culvert is a structure that channels water past

  3. Headwall - Wikipedia

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    Headwall and corrie lake Cwm Idwal. In physical geography and geology, the headwall of a glacial cirque is its highest cliff.The term has been more broadly used to describe similar geomorphic features of non-glacial origin consisting of a concave depression with convergent slopes typically of 65 percent or greater forming the upper end of a drainage valley.

  4. St. Alban's Bay Culvert - Wikipedia

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    The St. Alban's Bay Culvert is functionally a concrete box culvert.However it has 40-foot-long (12 m) headwalls faced with random ashlar of local granite. This facing is about 9 inches (23 cm) thick, disguising a core of mortared lake boulders.

  5. Headward erosion - Wikipedia

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    Headward erosion creates three major kinds of drainage patterns: dendritic patterns, trellis patterns, and rectangular and angular patterns. Dendritic patterns form in homogenous landforms where the underlying bedrock has no structural control over where the water flows. They have a very characteristic pattern of branching at acute angles with ...

  6. Eddy Creek (Lackawanna River tributary) - Wikipedia

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    The drainage basin of Eddy Creek is a Warmwater Fishery and a Migratory Fishery. [15] Some areas of the riparian buffer of Eddy Creek contain woody herbaceous plants. Strip mine overburden piles covered in forests also occur in the creek's riparian area. [9] Eddy Creek was described as a "low-quality aquatic resource" in a 1992 report. [11]

  7. Sweethope Loughs - Wikipedia

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    At the west end of Sweethope Loughs is the first bridge, actually a culvert, on the River Wansbeck and crossed by the minor road going west from Knowesgate to the A68 road. It was constructed in 1972 and is a concrete pipe with masonry headwalls and crosses the narrow river only a few feet wide.

  8. Lassen Volcanic National Park Highway Historic District

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    Northwest entrance. The road features typical Park Service rustic details such as stone retaining walls and culvert headwalls. It is designed to work naturally with the landscape to provide a progression of views to motorists without adverse impact on the land.

  9. Wing wall - Wikipedia

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    Wing walls can be classified according to their position in plan with respect to banks and abutments. The classification is as follows: Straight wing walls: used for small bridges, on drains with low banks and for railway bridges in cities (weep holes are provided).