Facts
Note: The following information comes from the National Bridge Inventory and has not been verified.
- Overview
- Swing bridge over Bayou Teche on LA 87S
- Location
- Iberia Parish, Louisiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1957
- Design
- Swing
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 204.0 ft.
Total length: 451.0 ft.
Deck width: 23.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.98667, -91.76500 (decimal degrees)
29°59'12" N, 91°45'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/619133/3317949 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- New Iberia South
- Inventory number
- BH 19019 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 02/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 22.0 (out of 100)
- Average daily traffic (as of 1989)
- 12,320