For city leaders in Englewood, Ohio, rehabilitating a deteriorating culvert during an economic downturn could have been a costly proposition.The 347-foot-long, 112- by 75- inch corrugated metal culvert on State Route 48, next to the Interstate 70 intersection, was deteriorating at the invert. Its galvanized metal bottom had eroded and corroded significantly.The culvert ran under a commercial business area with average daily traffic of 26,000 vehicles. If nothing were done, ground stability around the culvert would be compromised, possibly leading to sink holes and traffic disruption. A dig-and-replace solution would have disrupted traffic and disrupted businesses already fighting against a
