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Little Potato Slough Bridge (1991)

San Joaquin County, California

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Little Potato Slough

Looking NW

Photo taken by Craig Philpott in February 2010

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BH Photo #155415

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Overview
Swing bridge over Little Potato Slough on CA 12 in Terminous
Location
Terminous, San Joaquin County, California
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1991
Design
Swing
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 160.1 ft.
Total length: 2,980.1 ft. (0.6 mi.)
Deck width: 42.7 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.11500, -121.49667   (decimal degrees)
38°06'54" N, 121°29'48" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
10/631785/4219641 (zone/easting/northing)
Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
15,000
Inventory numbers
CA 29-101 (California bridge number)
BH 11430 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of April 2017)
Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 78 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Built 1991 (82)
Built during 1990s (725)
CA 12 (4)
California (2,593)
Center Pivot Swing Span (82)
Have street view (26,938)
Modern (2,436)
Movable (2,969)
 Navigable waterway (2,152)
Open (39,880)
Owned by state (15,983)
San Joaquin County, California (56)
Span length 125-175 feet (4,219)
Swing (1,453)
Terminous, California (2)
Total length over 2500 feet (916)

Update Log 

  • July 29, 2018: New photos from John Cockle
  • May 15, 2018: New Street View added by Leslie R Trick
  • November 26, 2011: New Street View added by Craig Philpott
  • February 17, 2010: New photos from Craig Philpott

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Sources 

  • Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Douglas Butler
  • Leslie R Trick - Leslie [dot] Trick [at] gmail [dot] com
  • John Cockle
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Little Potato Slough Bridge
Posted November 26, 2011, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

This bridge is so ugly its interesting. Certainly a contender for ugliest movable bridge ever constructed. BEFORE reading the below comments, I immediately thought the bridge tender house looked like a prison guard tower. We certainly have come a long way (down) since the bridge tender houses from the 1920s in Chicago.

Little Potato Slough Bridge
Posted February 18, 2010, by Craig Philpott (cphilpott [at] puc [dot] edu)

My only claim to shame on this bridge is that I drove across the old bridge for years and never stopped to take a picture. Yes, looks like a guard tower.

Little Potato Slough Bridge
Posted February 18, 2010, by J.R. Manning (thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net)

At first glance, I saw the tower that serves as the control house and thought, "Since when have we started posting photos of prisons?" I mean, is it just me, or does that pylon look more like a prison guard tower?

Little Potato Slough Bridge
Posted February 18, 2010, by Robert Thompson

Wow. It's an interesting mixture of impressive engineering and modern butt-uglyness. I'm both intrigued and repelled.