Driveway Culverts & Ditch Work in Columbia, TN

Setting, replacing and clearing the pipe under a driveway entrance and the roadside ditch it belongs to.

On rural property here the driveway culvert is the single most important piece of drainage on the place, and the one nobody looks at until it fails. Crushed ends, a pipe set too high, or one silted half full will back water up the ditch and across the road, and in a heavy rain that is what takes the end of a gravel drive with it.

Ditch work is the other half of the same system. A roadside ditch has to keep a continuous fall to the next crossing, and over the years it fills with silt and grows over until it holds water rather than moving it. Reshaping the ditch and setting the culvert at the right elevation are usually a single job, and worth doing before a wet winter rather than during one.

Typical cost: $1,200 - $4,500 to set or replace a driveway culvert, depending on diameter and how much drive has to come up

When culvert and ditch work is the right call

• The driveway entrance washes out or holds water after rain
• The culvert ends are crushed, rusted through, or silted up
• Water crosses the driveway instead of passing under it
• The roadside ditch is flat, grown over, or holding standing water

Other services

• French Drain Installation
• Yard Drainage & Regrading
• Downspout & Gutter Drainage
• Catch Basins & Surface Drains
• Footing Drain Repair

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