Culvert Repair and Installation in Seymour, MO
Springfield Culvert Company cleans, repairs, replaces, and installs driveway culverts in Seymour, Missouri. We also rebuild washed out ends, build farm entrances, grade approaches, and armor outlets. Licensed and insured in Missouri.
Seymour sits in southeastern Webster County, out past the Springfield metro. It is a run we make regularly, and the first thing we do when we get there is check whether the pipe is actually broken.
Plenty of them are not. A blocked culvert behaves exactly like an undersized one: water crosses the driveway instead of passing under it, and the owner assumes the pipe has failed. Most of the time the barrel is fine and full of something. Silt building at the inlet. Gravel washed in off the shoulder. A root mass at a joint. Cattails rooted in standing water. Leaf packs after a wet autumn. Beaver work, which can close an entrance inside a week.
Digging that out is the cheapest job on our whole price list, and it fixes a driveway that has been flooding for years. We check it first every time, because nobody should buy a new culvert to solve a shovel problem.
Once the pipe is clear you can judge what is under all that. If the invert has rusted through, the barrel has flattened, or the joints have pulled apart, then replacement is the honest answer and we say so. Middle answers exist too. A pipe that still holds its shape can be slip lined, which puts a new barrel inside the old one and leaves your entrance undisturbed.
The other thing worth fixing while we are there is the inlet. Water arriving at an angle scours the shoulder and starts working around the pipe. Shaping the ditch above the entrance so the flow comes in straight stops that.
Call (417) 555-0173 for a free estimate on culvert work in Seymour.