Cement Bag Culvert Repair
Some time ago, we experienced a washout of one of our culverts under our farm road. This washout had the potential to damage the culvert and wash out part of the road. In this post, I will discuss the steps we took to repair it. First, we began with the excavation work. I hired a guy to come in and clean out the fill on either side of the culvert. He also widened it a little bit so that the water would have a place to hold prior to going into the culvert in case there was a large rain coming in. Along the roadway, we had him dig out approximately the length and width of one cement bag, which basically worked out to be about the size of his bucket. Once we had that in place, we built a footer using three cement bags to form two lengthwise and one in the rear width-wise. We also placed a bag underneath the culvert to form a little stop so water could not get under there. We then built four layers utilizing the cement bags and once that was put into place, we went ahead and built the
