Highway Drainage & Culverts Less Than 3.0 M

B.C. Provincial Government References

B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure

• B.C. Supplement to TAC Geometric Design Guide

B.C. Ministry of Forests and Natural Resources

• Fish-Stream Crossing Guidebook 2012 (PDF, 4.16 MB)
  This guidebook provides the latest information regarding fish passage including current legislative and some technical reference material

Corrugated Steel Pipe Institute

• CSPI Handbook of Steel Drainage and Highway Construction Products (2010) (PDF, 81.3MB)
  This handbook is a comprehensive guide to corrugated steel pipes covering topics ranging from fabrication and design, to installation and inspection

U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highways Administration

• Hydraulic Design Series 05: Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts, Third Edition (2012) (PDF, 47MB - April 2012)
  (NOTE: This is a large PDF document and may take several minutes to open)
  This manual provides detailed design guidance for culvert hydraulics, aquatic organism passage and culvert repair and rehabilitation
• Hydraulic Engineering Circular 14: Hydraulic Design of Energy Dissipators for Culverts and Channels, Third Edition (2006) (PDF, 3MB - October 2012)
  This manual provides design guidance for dissipating energy at culvert outlets and in open channels
• Hydraulic Engineering Circular 26: Culvert Design for Aquatic Organism Passage, First Edition (2010) (PDF, 9MB - October 2010)
  This manual provides best practices for designing in-stream structures so that they do not become barriers to aquatic organism passage 
• Hydraulic Engineering Circular 9: Debris Control Structure: Evaluation and Countermeasures, Third Edition (2005) (PDF, 4.3MB - October 2005)
  This manual provides guidance for analysis and countermeasure design regarding debris accumulation at culverts and bridges