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Beavercreek receives citywide drainage master plan estimating $15 million in repairs and prioritizing 61 culverts
Summary
Consultant Wolpert presented a 293‑page drainage master plan to Beavercreek City Council that inventories culverts and streams, ranks priority repairs and estimates about $10.4 million for culvert replacements and roughly $3.9 million for stream stabilization, for a combined preliminary cost of about $15 million.
Wolpert Consultants presented a citywide drainage master plan to Beavercreek City Council, describing an inventory of the city’s culverts and streams, condition ratings and preliminary cost estimates for repairs and replacements.
The plan, delivered by Wolpert project manager Dave DeCesar, covers 26.5 square miles of city limits, inspected 120 culverts and walked more than 15 miles of stream channel. Wolpert assigned field condition ratings on a 1–3 scale (1 = good, 2 = fair, 3 = poor), produced unique asset IDs and cut sheets for each culvert and stream segment, and ran hydraulic modeling to evaluate performance against a 25‑year design storm.
The study found 61 culverts recommended for replacement, estimated at about $10.4 million (engineering and construction). It identified 44 stream segments needing stabilization work (about $3.9 million) and 63 stream segments requiring immediate maintenance (about $500,000). Wolpert estimated maintenance work on prioritized culverts at about $136,000. Taken together — culvert replacement, culvert maintenance, stream stabilization and stream maintenance — the preliminary…
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