Culvert design for aquatic organism passage: an enviromental approach

Authors

  • Miguel Enrique Blanco Chávez Programa de Investigación, Estudios Nacionales y Servicios del Ambiente (PIENSA), Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería,Nicaragua

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/elhigo.v11i1.11709

Keywords:

Rivers, culvert, fish passage, environmental

Abstract

The design of culverts at the crossroads of roads and streams such as streams or rivers, has traditionally been based on the hydraulic safety requirements for the road. With this conception of the sewer design, the biological elements of the water stream, such as fish and other aquatic organisms, which are an essential part of the ecosystem and which have been altered by a physical barrier that is the sewer, have been left without consideration. Thinking about environmentally friendly design, concepts and guidelines have been developed for the design of culverts to cross roads and streams, which facilitate the passage of aquatic organisms through the culvert, so that these can have mobility in the same way as in the natural stream. In this paper some guidelines for the design of culverts in an environmentally friendly way are presented, which are addressed by Kilgore et al (2010), Schall at al. (2012), Bates and Kirn (2009), Henrik et al (2019), Kozarek and Mielke (2015), Olson et al (2017), and Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (2016).

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Author Biography

Miguel Enrique Blanco Chávez, Programa de Investigación, Estudios Nacionales y Servicios del Ambiente (PIENSA), Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería,Nicaragua

Miguel Enrique Blanco Chávez: Ingeniero Civil, con maestría en Ingeniería Ambiental. Trabaja en el Programa de Investigación de Estudios Nacionales y Servicios del Ambiente (PIENSA) de la UNI. Además, es docente universitario por más de 30 años.

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Published

2021-06-21

How to Cite

Blanco Chávez, M. E. (2021). Culvert design for aquatic organism passage: an enviromental approach. Journal of Science and Technology El Higo, 11(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.5377/elhigo.v11i1.11709

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Review article