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Overview Round Spring features a large natural bridge... but this nearby artificial bridge is pretty impressive, too. |
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Close-up of arch For a creek that usually has little or no water in it, this bridge does border on overkill. |
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View of piers Notice how the piers are not set at right angles to the deck. |
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Close-up of bridge damage Like many state highway bridges built in the 1920s, the edges are starting to crumble. |
Facts
- Overview
- Single open-spandrel arch over Spring Valley Creek on MO 19
- Location
- Shannon County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic on a paved road with no posted weight limits
- Future prospects
- Scheduled for replacement or rehabilitation
- History
- Built 1930
- Builder
- - C.F. Johnson & Son (Contractor)
- Design
- Open-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 154.8 ft.
Total length: 522.8 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Also called
- Spring Valley Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.28186, -91.40934 (decimal degrees)
37°16'55" N, 91°24'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/641011/4127327 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 30 N., R. 4 W., Sec. 20
- USGS topographic map
- Round Spring
- Inventory numbers
- MONBI 5386 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
MoDOT J-420 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
BH 22544 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 12/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 35.1 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
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