{"id":4592,"date":"2012-02-13T07:24:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2013-02-06T07:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:17:51","slug":"beat-puts-together-culvert-presentation-berkshire-conservation-commissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/beat-puts-together-culvert-presentation-berkshire-conservation-commissions\/","title":{"rendered":"BEAT Creates Culvert Presentation For Berkshire Conservation Commissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the past five years, BEAT has been photographing and measuring all of the places in Berkshire County where roads cross streams.\u00a0 The study is part of a project organized by the University of Massachusetts, The Nature Conservancy, and the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration (formerly Riverways).\u00a0 There are about two thousand stream crossings in the Berkshires.\u00a0 To collect data for such a large undertaking, BEAT works with the Hoosic River Watershed Association in the Hoosic River watershed and with the Housatonic Valley Association in the Housatonic River watershed.\u00a0 (In <a title=\"BEAT Surveys Stream-Crossings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/beat-surveys-stream-crossings\/\">another story<\/a> on this website, we reported the reasons for this project.)<\/p>\n<p>And now, armed with data and photos, BEAT is visiting all of the Conservation Commissions in Berkshire County to explain to Conservation Commissioners why properly designed stream crossings are important to wildlife and to flood prevention.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways to design a stream crossing.\u00a0 A common way of allowing water to pass under a roadway is to install a culvert.\u00a0 Most of these are just round metal or plastic tubes.\u00a0 They have been important ever since there were roads.\u00a0 But now that we are facing climate change, properly designed and properly sized culverts are critical.\u00a0 Here in the Northeast, we are already experiencing more frequent and more intense rainstorms.\u00a0 Ensuring that our culverts carry water efficiently and is more important than ever if we want to minimize flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Also, wildlife populations all over the world are migrating to cooler habitats in response to increasing temperatures and to climate change.\u00a0 Properly designed crossings play a role here as well.\u00a0 New state guidelines specify that culverts should be wider than the actual streambed.\u00a0 This extra width, which will be dry except in times of very high water, provides a safe path across roads for non-aquatic wildlife such as raccoons, mink, porcupines, and in some of the larger waterways, deer and bear.\u00a0 This helps animals in their migrations and in their everyday movements.<\/p>\n<p>This is a culvert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/beat-puts-together-culvert-presentation-berkshire-conservation-commissions\/attachment\/5868\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5868\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5868\" style=\"margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"&lt;SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA&gt;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/210010394C20-20110706-O-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"a well designed culvert allowing a stream to pass under a road\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/210010394C20-20110706-O-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/210010394C20-20110706-O-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/210010394C20-20110706-O-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/210010394C20-20110706-O-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It provides a passageway under the road.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what culverts do.\u00a0 They allow water to pass under roadways, footpaths, train tracks, etc.\u00a0 But improperly designed culverts pose a problem to the movement of fish and other wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/beat-puts-together-culvert-presentation-berkshire-conservation-commissions\/perchedculvert-640x250\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5857\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5857\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"perchedculvert-640x250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/perchedculvert-640x250-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"a perched culvert\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/perchedculvert-640x250-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/perchedculvert-640x250-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/perchedculvert-640x250-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this improperly installed culvert.\u00a0 This is called a perched culvert.\u00a0 It creates a small waterfall that some fish can&#8217;t climb or jump.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Culverts can also be perched on the upstream end.\u00a0 This means that in times of low water the stream actually stops flowing.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t flow again until the water level gets high enough to enter the culvert.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stream.fs.fed.us\/fishxing\/yalljump.html\" target=\"_blank\">funny little video<\/a> that illustrates the problem from the perspective of a fish.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a properly designed stream crossing.\u00a0 Spans such as this are a vast improvement over culverts.\u00a0 They can be constructed on a much smaller scale to replace culverts such as those in the photos above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/beat-puts-together-culvert-presentation-berkshire-conservation-commissions\/propercrossing\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5913\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5913\" title=\"propercrossing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/propercrossing-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"properly designed stream crossing\" width=\"450\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/propercrossing-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/propercrossing.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some points to note are that the span is wider than the streambed, except in times of high water.\u00a0 Also note that the stream maintains a natural substrate and a uniform gradient as it passes under the roadway.\u00a0 From the perspective of a fish or other animal, the only indication that it is passing under a roadway will be a brief shadow.<\/p>\n<p>Improperly installed or designed culverts, especially undersized culverts, can also lead to the flooding of roadways.\u00a0\u00a0 (Recently we reported on <a title=\"VICTORY! BEAT Gets State To Update Its Stormwater Calculations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/victory-beat-gets-state-to-update-its-stormwater-calculations\/\">our victory<\/a> in getting the state of Massachusetts to update its its stormflow calculations.)\u00a0 Now that we are well into the project, we are taking our show on the road, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Our presentation to conservation commissions educates the commissioners on why culvert design is important to public safety and to environmental protection.\u00a0 We are able to provide the commissioners in each city and town with information on the condition of each culvert in their community.\u00a0 This allows them to make informed decisions when its time to replace a culvert or when project proposals come before them.\u00a0 With climate change upon us, we have to do everything we can to ensure that we are prepared.<\/p>\n<p>This project has been funded by the Massachusetts Environmental Trust, the Natural Resources Damages Trustees, the TransWild Alliance, and the Berkshire Environmental Endowment Fund.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For the past five years, BEAT has been photographing and measuring all of the places in Berkshire County where roads cross streams.\u00a0 The study is part of a project organized by the University of Massachusetts, The Nature Conservancy, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BEAT Creates Culvert Presentation For Berkshire 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