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No Eyed Deer you certainly gave me some more to think about. Changing my driveway’s path, so it crosses perpendicular to creek/ water isn’t an option right now. My property is on the east side of the creek, the county road is on the west side of the creek & all I have is a 30’ easement. Neither...

Might also be under my first post ‘DIY Bridge’ but I can’t find it anywhere.

I’m not finding that post now. I’m thinking it was posted by Jstpssn but I’m not sure. Sorry

Yes Sir, I have my eye open for some but so far no luck. Any idea how tall they would need to be to carry the weight of, say a log truck and how close they would need to be? Like 2’OC?

So, I talked with a guy today, who does excavation, and he’s been building bridges (over creeks) with ‘retired’ flatbed trailers. The flatbeds are usually 48’ to 53’ long. In many cases he welds two trailer abreast so the crossing is 16’ wide. They also install buttress blocks, rip rap rock &...

“If the terrain allows it, build relief dips on both sides of the bridge.” This sounds like a good idea. Certainly something to look into. Thanks.

1. Yes, primary residence. 2. Days / year when it’s not possible varies. There are probably a total of only 4-6 days where we can’t cross it in a 4WD F250. When that happens it’s usually just a day at a time, two at most. There’s probably 6-8 WEEKS a year that we can’t get the cars out. That’s...

Yes. I can take out the doglegs so the water doesn’t run down the driveway but it will be at a slight angle.

Your are right airbiscuit. From the east bank of the creek to the west, on my driveway the ground only drops 25” at its lowest point.

I haven’t been able to do much maintenance of the creek over the last 20 years. Partly because it is someone else’s property & I have a 30’ wide easement from the county road to where my property begins just east of the creek. We could park our cars/trucks close to the county road and wade the...

It might end up that we go that route. There are several concrete slabs/low water crossings upstream and downstream that have been there quite awhile. I think just dredging out a lot of the gravel (at my driveway & below) and straightening out the creek will help tremendously.

Don’t have access to the computer right now but I used my phone and took some screenshots. On this photo the yellow arrow shows points to the driveway. The blue arrows show the creek bed. You can see how the creek widens between the green and red arrows. That wide area in my drive is about 100...

Yes, same direction, different times of the year. T at the end of the drive is county road. Last year my wife’s Toyota sat on the far side of the creek because of flooding, for over two months. Nice or something got in it a chew a bunch of wires. After a bad flood we can usually cross it after...

T That was a real photo I posted. Here’s another from today. You can see the water is much lower now.

Please send me information on the bridge. Sounds great !

First of all I want to thank everyone who made comments on my thread. Lots of opinions and ideas. I think I might have made a mistake by calling it a bridge that I am wanting to build, rather than a low water crossing. Some suggested that I should build a bridge, and they’re probably right but...

Been working with the County Commissioners. Not too many restrictions in this part of the country. Sometimes that’s good but sometimes it’s bad too.

The creek has filled will a lot of gravel over the years. The only development was when they moved the highway 3/4 miles closer to us, turned the two lanes into 4 lanes and knocked down some hills to fill in some valleys. Where my county road meets the highway, it’s 35 ft higher in elevation...

The creek only runs past my driveway after heavy rains. A lot of times it stops flowing on the surface and goes in i don’t expect the 2 36” pipes to handle all the water during the really heavy rain. At that point the bridge will be more of a spillway. I hope is to be able to cross the creek...

I’ll see what I can find…

Thanks, I guess I’m showing my age & ignorance…

The question I need to ask is, how did you do it the last time to solve the issue?

I’d be very willing to have the work done for that amount of money. I figured 40 tons of rock and maybe 20 yds3 of concrete. The culvert pipe is $2600, for the two pipe. Do you do this kind of work or know someone in my area that does?

I’ve followed this dry creek bed about 5 miles. Above me there are 3 places where this creek & smaller creeks feeding into it cross the road. Each crossing has a low water concrete slab. The largest crossing is maybe 30 ft. The reason it’s so wide at my drive is because of it jogging west, east...

24”X20’ culvert cost $550.00ea 36”X20’ culvert cost$1300.00 ea Nothing’s cheap or affordable,

I hate doing things twice myself, especially when there’s money involved. Those culverts aren’t cheap. I’m too old and out of shape to enjoy the exercise I’d get. The water does turn at my drive. I know the first thing I’ll need to do is have the creek bed dredged out & straightened to help with...

I don’t know what sort of materials I would need to make a bridge. Know nothing about the strength of concrete when it comes to spanning any distances. I agree the an open channel will flow better than a low water crossing with culverts. Thanks for commenting.

That’s another reason why I am willing to use a 3ft culvert instead of a 2ft. I can keep a 3ft cleaned out better than a 2ft. Thanks for commenting.

Part of the problem is, over the last 20 years, the creek has moved a bit. It used to just flow across the drive after heavy rains. Now water runs and hits my driveway at the east end (bank) of the drive then doglegs west, with half the water turning south after about 30 ft and the rest of the...

I’ve seen where folks have used retired train cars to span the gap but they’re too much for my budget. Thanks for comments.

Have considered having the creek bed dug out, pouring concrete ‘buttress’ walls on each side and then pouring a thick concrete slab over the buttress walls to drive over but I don’t think it will support heavy equipment. Thanks for comments.

70 ft is a safe estimate. Here’s a photo of it when it’s up. It’s almost 100 wide at this point. So I’ll need to make sure my bridge will work as a spillway at these times. Thanks for your comments.

Would like to build it to function as a low water crossing (after a heavy storm/rain with water washing over the slab) with the hopes I would be able to cross it sooner. Have not read all replies yet but many are saying the downstream side of the slab will probably need the same amount of...

That should have said dry creek.

I have a fry creek that runs across my driveway. After heavy rains the water runs through & will get up to 3-4’ deep and might run 60-70’ wide. I want to hire a dozer to come and clean the creek bed up (push gravel to the banks and straighten the run a bit. After that I would like to install two...