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Culverts took the canal across small streams; aqueducts (bridgelike structures that can carry a water conduit across a valley or over a river) got the canal over bigger streams.
Kate Kelly: The Significance of the Catoctin Aqueduct in the Story of American Transportation 2010
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Culverts, bridges, or deep cuts may be good locations.
FM 7-98 Chptr 2 - Support For Insurgency and Cntrinsrgncy United States Army 1992
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Culverts with 5 feet or less of fill may be destroyed by explosive charges placed in the same manner as in hasty road cratering.
Army Field Manual: Explosives and Demolutions Extract by the Death Jester 1971
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Abutments and Piers, as well as Box and Arch Culverts, belonging more properly to masonry, will be treated of hereafter under that head.
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Culverts, Arches; the Theory of Reinforced Concrete; the design and construction of the simpler Reinforced Concrete Structures.
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Culverts, Arches; The Theory of Reinforced Concrete; the design and construction of the simpler Reinforced Concrete Structures.
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Culverts, Arches; The Theory of Reinforced Concrete; the design and construction of the simpler Reinforced Concrete Structures.
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Culverts of hewn stone of sufficient size to carry off the water and protect the embankment, have been built in a strong and permanent manner.
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We have built and repaired six Culverts, besides other masonry of a miscellaneous character.
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Culverts built into the river's levee system were opened, redirecting freshwater into saltwater estuaries.
The Seattle Times 2010
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