Historic Bridges of the U.S. | Blue Mountain Lake Spillway Bridge

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View east from lakeside road

100 yrds of mown level grass field from road to bridge

Photo taken by Fredrick Garcia in March 2008

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View northeast

Wing wall and abuttments

Photo taken by Fredrick Garcia in February 2008

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North View

Bridge is painted light blue, single lane, one way, concrete decking.

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Lower Chord

All members well gussetted

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North Approach

Cable guardrails on both sides. Rip rap behind wing walls

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Northwest View & Underside

Single span. Guardrails on bridge sides

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End Diagonal w/ upper lifting brackets

All the end posts have these twin brackets for hoisting. Bridge iron is gussetted & riveted and of heavy gauge - perhaps 3/4" thick.

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Lifting Bracket above anchor point

All four ends of bridge have these heavy duty hoisting ears.

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East View

Can't be positive, but it appears that this spillway area may have an auxillary creek to the Petit Jean River

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Facts

Overview: Pony truss bridge over Overflow Spillway on Corp of Engineers project road in Waveland
Location: Waveland, Yell County, Arkansas
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1947
Design: Pony truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 100 ft.
Total length: 100 ft.
Deck width: 15 ft.
Inventory number: BH 36356 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

March 12, 2008: Added by Fredrick Garcia

Sources

Fredrick Garcia - fandsgarcia [at] gmail [dot] com

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