Sipsey River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Warren pony truss bridge over Sipsey River on CR 95 in Fayette
- Location
- Fayette County, Alabama
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1940; rehabilitated 2001
- Design
- Warren pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 100.1 ft.
Total length: 180.1 ft.
Deck width: 12.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.84626, -87.72441 (decimal degrees)
33°50'47" N, 87°43'28" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/432981/3745345 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hubbertville
- Average daily traffic (as of 2002)
- 20
- Inventory numbers
- AL 18426 (Alabama bridge number)
BH 10125 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of April 2016)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 24 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Sources
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
I live"around the bend". This is the community there. I have used this this bridge almost daily my whole life!! It was washed out for about three years, not washed out but a tree took it down and it was not repaired for years! It was annoying too!!! It used to have a higher ramp on one end. They did straighten it out some when it was rebuilt. It needs to be redone again😍
My family's land is just around the curve from this bridge. The bridge didn't wash away. Some of the under footing of it was comprised. Only one end had a part that sloped down, and when it would flood that part would float. When they made the repairs to it is when they took out the end that slopes down since the end only sit on top of the pavement.
A local resident told me that the bridge washed away during a flood. It was rebuilt in 2001. It used to have an upward slope on both ends with the middle portion horizontal. They rebuilt it as horizontal the whole length of the bridge.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/al/fayette/18426/
I live"around the bend". This is the community there. I have used this this bridge almost daily my whole life!! It was washed out for about three years, not washed out but a tree took it down and it was not repaired for years! It was annoying too!!! It used to have a higher ramp on one end. They did straighten it out some when it was rebuilt. It needs to be redone again😍