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Blue Mountain Lake Spillway Bridge

Yell County, Arkansas

Photos 

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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BH Photo #112818

Map 

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
Riveted, 15-panel Pratt pony truss
Dimensions
Span length: 100.0 ft.
Total length: 100.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+35.11016, -93.64668   (decimal degrees)
35°06'37" N, 93°38'48" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/441068/3885451 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Blue Mountain Dam
Inventory number
BH 36356 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 04/2014)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 52.2 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
55

Categories 

15-panel truss (1)
Arkansas (1,676)
Built 1947 (252)
Built during 1940s (3,568)
Functionally obsolete (7,985)
Open (36,537)
Owned by Corps of Engineers (82)
Owned by federal government (992)
 Pony truss (15,049)
Pratt pony truss (3,180)
Pratt truss (8,017)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,030)
Total length 100-125 feet (4,639)
Truss (29,440)
Waveland, Arkansas (4)
Yell County, Arkansas (84)

Update Log 

  • February 3, 2009: New photos from Gene McCluney
  • March 12, 2008: Added by Fredrick Garcia

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Blue Mountain Lake Spillway Bridge
Posted December 13, 2008, by Gene McCluney (mccluney [at] sbcglobal [dot] net)

I think this is a repurposed Railroad pony truss bridge, which would explain the massive construction, much heavier than the average vehicular pony truss.