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Culvert and Drainage Structure Health: Beyond the Pothole
Why assessing drainage structures alongside pavement defects reveals the real cause of road failure.
Road failure often starts below the surface — a blocked culvert or degraded drainage structure accelerates pavement damage long before it’s visible as a pothole. Assessing culvert and drainage-structure condition alongside pavement defects gives a more complete picture of why a stretch is deteriorating, not just where.
