Rating:
12141
{99}%
1 vote
Pleasant Valley Bridge (1939)
Photos
Photo taken by Doug Kerr in February 2011
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BH Photo #195596
Description
Replaced a steel bridge lost in 1938 flood.
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over West Branch Farmington River on CT 181 in Barkhamsted
- Location
- Barkhamsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1939; rehabilitated 1986
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 232.0 ft.
Total length: 238.9 ft.
Deck width: 27.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.6 ft.
- Also called
- Church Pool Bridge
Pleasant Valley Road Bridge
Route 318 Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.91270, -72.98785 (decimal degrees)
41°54'46" N, 72°59'16" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/666872/4642040 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- New Hartford
- Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
- 6,600
- Inventory numbers
- CT 1496 (Connecticut bridge number)
BH 12141 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of April 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 61.3 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- March 21, 2020: New photos from Chester Gehman
- July 4, 2014: Updated by Chester Gehman: Corrected name
- October 5, 2013: Updated by Brent Tindall: Adjusted GPS coordinates
- March 21, 2011: New photos from Doug Kerr
- March 19, 2011: Updated by J.P.: updated location
Sources
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Doug Kerr
- Brent Tindall - bizzat219 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Grew up right next to this bridge. Fished off of it alot. Before it was a tar roadway it was steel waffle and very slippery when wet. lots of accidents on sunday with people leaving peoples forest...