You know... as much fun as it would be to watch your interaction with the bureaucracy, I still would not wish that on you... so I'll say this... If you approach them in a proactive manner in terms of determining a manner in which you can accomplish what you want to do, you may find that within reason you can get it permitted. Sometimes they can be quite helpful. Sometimes not so helpful but at least you get done what you want. On the other hand if you want to wait until some freak rain event causes runoff at a level unexpected by anyone to the point that your culvert is overwhelmed and it floods the yards and basements of half your neighbourhood... and then the bureaucrats get involved because they're now on the hotseat... Guess what? Things are not going to go well for you. If you get as belligerent with them as your tone implies in previous posts.... things are going to go really, really, really, REALLY BADLY for you. $hit, much like water... always flows downhill. Lou ought to know that since he's been a big time dirt contractor for a lot of years...
As far as the culvert/cribbing issue is concerned... I have no idea how it will be treated where you are... but the way it's dealt with 'here'.... is basically... they frown on anyone breaking the bank of a brook/stream, etc. as that can cause an alteration to it's natural course. To install a culvert and backfill you are breaking the bank and infilling. I know that open bottom, structural type box culverts are often permitted here, at least on a temporary basis though I don't know if they're allowed on a permanent basis. If you've got fish in this ditch or whatever it is... that adds a whole other level of bureaucracy to the mix... The reason the cribbing and bank stabilization is not seen to be a problem is because it is not in the watercourse and doesn't alter the watercourse... so you're not seen to be altering the natural course of events.
At the end of the day I really don't care what you do. It's not going to effect me in any way at all. I might say I'd hate to see you get screwed over by the powers that be... but honestly... I hope you take good video of the events and post them all to youtube with links here for all to see. The romans had a stadium for theater like that...
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