Plastic Culvert Pipe Using Polyethylene

For years Oxford Plastics has manufactured plastic culvert pipe for a strategic alliance of municipalities, road and high construction firms, engineers and contractors, covering Eastern Canada, the Northeastern and Midwestern States of the United States. If you want to become a member of our network as a distributor of our plastic culvert pipe for your own industry and customers, please contact us today and we will gladly answer any of your questions.

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What is Culvert Pipe?
A culvert is a drainage tube or pipe that carries water from one side of a road, bridge, driveway, railway or some other structure, to the other side. Oxford Plastics manufacturers dual wall culvert pipe (corrugated on the outside, and smooth on the inside) up to 12 inches. We also make hdpe smooth wall (also referred to as solid wall, poly pipe, hdpe pipe, hdpe pressure pipe, etc) up to 18 inches. While all our pipe is made using some grade of hdpe resin, its application and the pipe profile (corrugated, double or dual wall, smooth or solid wall) that defines the use and the type of resin used in the process.

Why use Polyethylene for Culvert Pipe?
Culvert pipe is used where it is necessary to transport water from one area to another. It is a necessity in those situations that experience occasional flooding and excessive water accumulation. Using polyethylene as a plastic culvert pipe in a storm water drainage system offers special advantages that are hard to ignore. Polyethylene pipe is the perfect solution for culvert installations because it can be installed a lot easier and faster and it requires less equipment which keeps the cost of installing the pipe down.

Advantages
Polyethylene offers three distinctive advantages over other pipe materials: strength, lightweight and flexibly. Strength: hdpe pipe provides maximum strength and shock resistance to weight ratio. Lightweight: hdpe pipe's exceptional lightweight means it can be installed by minimum size crews and equipment, and is safer to work with than heavy pipe. Flexibility: polyethylene offers longitudinal flexibility which is an advantage in two ways: 1) a curved pipeline allows faster installation and fewer manholes may be required and 2) when the pipe is installed in bedrock, the pipe can be maneuvered around obstructions minimizing and eliminating blasting.

HDPE is hydraulically efficient, easy to cut, and will not be adversely affected by brackish water, chemicals, and corrosive elements found in soils. Our culvert pipe is also produced in 6 metres (or 20 foot) lengths and is fairly flexible permitting smooth curvilinear installation.

Applications
From highway edge drain pipe to culverts for rural and other state roads, corrugated single wall polyethylene pipe outperforms corrugated steel in chemical and abrasion resistance. N-12 inch double or dual wall pipe is used for cross drains, parallel drains, underdrains and culverts. It is a preferred choice over heavy and cumbersome concrete pipes and structures. When you use hdpe as your culvert pipe, drain basins, curb inlets, and inline drains are all easily installed with minimum equipment and manpower. Some of the most popular applications include the following:

1. Temporary installations, i.e., for temporary drainage of roads, lakes, etc.
2. Remote areas that are not easily accessed.
3. Parking lots, (where car traffic is light to moderate and truck traffic is light).
4. Longitudinal installations on highways within the shoulder areas.
5. Slope drains.
6. Places with very little or no underground utility activity.
7. Where parallel underground utility work is unlikely to disrupt the supporting soil adjacent to the pipe.

If you're thinking about using plastic culvert pipe for your project, let us know and we will try to give the best advice to help you make the right decision.