culvert
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Ducking into Maryam Lashkari, Hodjat Salimi and Oscar Tuazon’s interactive sculpture — an enormous cardboard tube lying on its side — feels like entering a culvert or a bomb shelter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Hottle died Tuesday morning after the car she was a passenger in crashed into a culvert off the side of the road in Ijamsville, Md., the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Hottle and another passenger were in a 1995 Honda Accord driven by a 19-year-old man when it veered off a two-lane highway and struck a culvert, according to Frederick County Sheriff's Office.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
McKee explained that homeowners had not raised any safety concerns about the culvert.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
Enrique crawls into a three-foot-wide concrete culvert, one of several in a field north of the station.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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Sometimes at the bottom of those undulations are culverts, or Department of Homeland Security vehicles will pop up.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2026
Local authorities were hampered by limited budgets and - because many culverts cross public and private land - there were unclear responsibilities for maintenance.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
More than a month after the evacuation order was lifted, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged that multiple buildings in East Palestine were being contaminated as contractors cleaned contaminated culverts under and alongside buildings.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2024
Removing blockages like culverts has restored the natural movements of many water bodies, creating new habitat for chum and other species.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Some found the sewer and some worked their way up the hill to the reservoir and some went into culverts and some only hid among the weeds in the vacant lot.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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