Flood Resilient Culvert Design
Join us June 18 at 3 p.m. CDT for presentation by Christ Ester (USFS) and Dale Higgins (retired USFS) on designing flood resilient culverts. The increasing frequency of high-intensity rainfall across Wisconsin is causing existing stream crossing infrastructure to fail, increasing long-term maintenance costs, and degrading public waterway and wetland resources including fish and other aquatic organisms.
This new document from the Infrastructure Working Group (part of WICCI) provides a concise summary of the rationale and methods for designing flood resilient stream crossings regardless of the structure used. This talk is intended for anyone interested in flood resilient road and trail stream crossings. This includes persons who:
- manage roads and trails (e.g., elected officials, agency officials, private road managers, etc.)
- manage streams and the environment (e.g., fisheries biologists, aquatic ecologists, wildlife biologists, water regulators, etc.)
- design crossings or collect data for such designs (e.g., civil engineers, surveyors, hydrologists, stream geomorphologists, etc.)
- involved in construction and maintenance of crossings
- all others interested in streams, roads or trails
To request disability accommodations, contact Austin Polebitski at 608.342.1553 or polebitskia@uwplatt.edu