Lemay Ferry Bridge
Description
This aging bridge had to be replaced because it could not handle the traffic that used it on a daily basis. It had a low vertical clearance of 13 feet 8 inches, and the overhead bracing was damaged.Facts
- Overview
- Lost two-span through truss bridge over the Meramec River on U. S. Highway 61 / 67 north of Arnold in Oakville
- Location
- Oakville, St. Louis County, Missouri, and Jefferson County, Missouri
- Status
- Replaced by UCEB
- History
- Built in 1933; replaced by UCEB in 2004
- Builder
- - Samuel Kraus Co. (Contractor)
- Design
- Pair of riveted, skewed 9-panel Parker through trusses
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 211.2 ft.
Total length: 844.9 ft.
Deck width: 42.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.45681, -90.36098 (decimal degrees)
38°27'25" N, 90°21'40" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/730272/4259800 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 43 N., R. 6 E., Sec. 16
- Elevation
- 423 ft. above sea level
- USGS topographic map
- Oakville
- Inventory numbers
- MoDOT K-205 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 5714 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22641 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 18, 2011: Updated by Mark Dellbringge: Corrected vertical clearance on bridge to 13'-8", added short description
Sources
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
- Mark Dellbringge
Comments
Note on pictures 2 and 3 the bent beams from a truck that was a little too tall and somehow made it nearly to the end of the bridge! I always remember as a kid going across and seeing the all the funny colors on the beams from missing paint/corrosion, the crumbling pavement, and those bent beams at the top and thinking we were going to fall. Good times :)
Note on pictures 2 and 3 the bent beams from a truck that was a little too tall and somehow made it nearly to the end of the bridge! I always remember as a kid going across and seeing the all the funny colors on the beams from missing paint/corrosion, the crumbling pavement, and those bent beams at the top and thinking we were going to fall. Good times :)
I'm posting a couple of images of the replacement bridge. One is from March 22, 2008 looking north from Jefferson County into St. Louis County across the flooded Meramec River. The second is a night shot looking from St. Louis County across the bridge into Jefferson County in January 2009.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/st-louis/meramec-61/