Culvert Installed in Ball Pond Brook New Fairfield, CT

The 4 foot wide waterfall was pretty but when the rain came it became a 60-foot wide powerful force.

The ground around the foundation for the building was washing away and needed to be secured.

The first step was to divert the brook coming through the state culvert to allow us access to install the footing for the culvert.

We diverted the brook through the left hand side of culvert.

With pumps and pipes handling the water flow, we were blessed with no hurricane rains. That would have been a major setback.

Once the water was out of the way we graded the proper slope and installed 12-16” of stone for the footing to sit on.

Underground water still needed to be pumped to keep the area dry while doing construction.

Footing is formed, steel re-bars installed and tied off. Notice the diverted brook to the left of the forms.

Footing concrete is poured and steel re-bars inserted to tie in to the wall re-bar - soon to be erected.

Water was diverted back into the right hand side of the culvert to allow the footing to be poured and attached to the left hand side of the existing culvert

Wall forms are placed on both side of the re-bars and ready for pouring concrete.

The concrete was pumped through a concrete pump truck and forms stripped within a few days.

Re-bars were inserted to tie in the top cap when installed.

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