Springville Culvert before replacement

A collapsed culvert in Springville, Alabama, threatened the urban habitat of a federally threatened fish called the trispot darter. The culvert altered the stream’s natural flow, limited the fish’s passage and increased flooding on the ballfields in the city's sports complex. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service used Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) money to help restore the culvert, creek and ballfields.