About Springfield Culvert Company

Springfield Culvert Company is a locally owned excavating contractor working driveway entrances in and around Springfield, Missouri. We install new culverts, replace pipe that has rusted through or gone flat, clean and repair pipe that is still good, build farm and field entrances, grade approaches, set lane and creek crossings, armor outlets, and run commercial and subdivision work. Missouri licensing and insurance are in place.

The thing we do differently is unglamorous and it is the whole job. We size the pipe to the ditch. That means standing in the ditch, reading its fall, and looking at the ground above it. Acres draining to that point, how steeply they come down, and whether they are pasture, timber, or roofs and pavement. A short driveway under a big watershed needs more pipe than a long driveway under a small one. Diameter is not a function of how wide your entrance is, and pricing it that way is how entrances wash out.

The rest is the parts nobody photographs. A shaped granular bed under the barrel so the pipe bears along its length. Backfill in lifts, both sides together, compacted evenly. About a foot of cover on a car entrance and more where loaded trucks cross. A flared end section at each opening so the fill stays back off the pipe. Angular rock on fabric where the water lands. Leave any one of those out and the pipe will still look fine from the road for a couple of years.

Greene County runs the permit on county roads, and the county's Right-of-Way Inspector visits the site and sets the culvert size before a permit issues. The county also bans plastic pipe in its right-of-way, so entrance culverts here go in as steel or concrete. Off the right-of-way, on your own ground, HDPE is still a good pipe and we use it. If your road belongs to a city, a special road district, or the state, that is a different office and we find out which one applies before we quote.

We also say no. A plugged pipe gets cleaned, not replaced, and we will tell you that even though the cleaning is the smaller invoice. A pipe that has rusted out along the bottom does not get patched. We will not promise you a start date over a running ditch, and we will not make claims about sinkholes. Saying so loses us a job now and then. It beats charging for something that fails again next spring.

Call (417) 555-0173 with a question about your entrance, whether or not there is a job in it.