"A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity,
stability and beauty of the community; and the community includes the
soil, water, fauna and flora, as well as the people." - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949
A new USGS report describes methods
for estimating flood discharges at ungaged stream sites in Montana for various
recurrence intervals. Plug in some simple numbers (drainage area, annual precipitation, active channel width, etc.) and determine the flow volumes your culvert will need to accomodate. Go to USGS Flood Discharge Program