The City of Beaumont has initiated the City-Wide Ditching Program to survey and remove ditch sediment and jet culverts on the nearly 450-plus miles of roadside ditches that serve to drain stormwater to either the Neches River or the Jefferson County Drainage District Number 6 channels.
The purpose of this program is to bring the ditches back to the size and capacity they were originally constructed at. In order to do so the project will:
- Survey the culverts and ditches across the City to establish the direction of flow and identify culverts that must be reset.
- All culverts that are out of grade by 3 inches or more will be reset to reduce water buildup in ditches.
- Sediment will be removed from ditches to restore the original flowlines. Ditches will not be widened or deepened.
- Streets and Drainage will jet/clean culverts after the contractor has removed sediment from the ditches.
