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Great Egg Harbor River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Great Egg Harbor River on Weymouth Road (CR 559)
- Location
- Atlantic County, New Jersey
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1919. Rebuilt October, 2009 thru June, 2010.
- Builders
- - Alexander H. Nelson (Engineer)
- Henry S. Kraus (contractor)
- Design
- Warren pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 42.0 ft.
Total length: 47.9 ft.
Deck width: 20.3 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 2001
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.51861, -74.77889 (decimal degrees)
39°31'07" N, 74°46'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/519005/4374353 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Newtonville
- Average daily traffic (as of 2013)
- 5,710
- Inventory numbers
- NJ 01HML22 (New Jersey bridge number)
NRHP 01000671 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 25047 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of February 2015)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 57.6 (out of 100)
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If I had known that my updates for each of these bridges were showing up on the forum I wouldn't have posted this stuff on the forum earlier.
Anyway, this bridge was reconstructed in May and June of 2010. All good components were retained and reused, and all bad components were replicated. They did an amazing job, IMO.
I shot a video there, the day I discovered that it was closed (October 3, 2009):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZrTkjs5Pgo
A week later I visited, and shot another video, after work had begun. The decking had been removed, and you can see just what horrible condition the bridge was in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5GgCaQKwhQ
On June 12, 2010 I visited again, and work was 99% complete. It was open to traffic soon after. This is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mIl9FHH32I
It is now rated at 21 tons, though I think that's a bit optimistic. No one pays attention to the weight limit signs anyway, and most people go way more than the posted 40 mph speed limit as well.