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Sinking Creek Bridge

Shannon County, Missouri
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Overview
Three-span open-spandrel arches over Sinking Creek on MO 19 north of Round Spring
Location
Shannon County, Missouri
Status
Open to traffic on a paved road, but scheduled for future rehabilitation
History
Built 1925
Builder
- Public Works Construction Co. (Contractor)
Design
Three-span open-spandrel arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 80.0 ft.
Total length: 338.8 ft.
Deck width: 18.0 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.30276, -91.41229   (decimal degrees)
37°18'10" N, 91°24'44" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/640710/4129641 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 30 N., R. 4 W., Sec. 7
USGS topographic map
Round Spring
Inventory numbers
MONBI 4853 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
MoDOT H-79 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
BH 22545 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 12/2010)
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: 52.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
666

Categories 

Arch (9,438)
Built 1925 (949)
Built during 1920s (7,046)
Concrete balustrade (431)
Deck arch (8,723)
Functionally obsolete (7,054)
MO 19 (13)
Missouri (4,533)
 NR-eligible (3,750)
Open (28,452)
Open-spandrel arch (583)
Owned by state (9,851)
Public Works Construction Co. (5)
Shannon County, Missouri (6)
Span length 75-100 feet (4,739)
Total length 250-500 feet (3,381)

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Sinking Creek Bridge
Posted October 19, 2008, by janet ellington (champbass [at] yahoo [dot] com)

I was wondering if anyone had names of the workers that help on building the bridge. and had pictures of the workers. My Grandpa George Blake was working on the bridge when he got sick and died. I was wondering if someone might have a picture of him.

Sinking Creek Bridge
Posted May 31, 2006, by Doug Canady (douglas [dot] canady [at] modot [dot] mo [dot] gov)

What an interesting and historic bridge in a gorgeous area of Missouri! With a sufficiency rating of 52, the bridge is eligible for federal funding for rehablitation, but not for total replacement. If no rehabilitation is done, then eventually MODOT will close the bridge to traffic. There are no alternate routes north and south in the area. Rehabilitation is inevitable. After witnessing a bad accident of a truck running into the bridge rail end post on the south side on Memorial Day 2006, it is obvious that the end posts need some sort of impact attenuator design for safety. I hope that MoDOT goes for an aesthetic, retro-historic sort of design when they rehabilitate the bridge. The designers will need to go "outside the box" to come up with a design that will match the existing historic structure aesthetics and satisfy FHWA and MUTCD design requirements. Send your input to MoDOT's District Engineer in Willow Springs, MO.