Pomeroy-Mason Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Cantilevered through truss bridge over Ohio River on OH 833 (formerly US 33) between Pomeroy, OH, and Mason, WV
- Location
- Meigs County, Ohio, and Mason County, West Virginia
- Status
- Imploded April 21, 2009
- History
- Built 1928; rehabilitated 1976. Imploded April 21, 2009
- Builder
- - Mt. Vernon Bridge Co. of Mt. Vernon, Ohio
- Design
- Cantilevered through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 657.2 ft.
Total length: 1,848.2 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.01333, -82.04333 (decimal degrees)
39°00'48" N, 82°02'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/409671/4318773 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Pomeroy
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 5300908 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 28001 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 07/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 15.9 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 9,060
Update Log
- May 7, 2010: New Street View added by Ed Hollowell
- April 21, 2009: Updated by Kim Harvey
- October 16, 2006: Posted photo from Casey Smith
Related Bridges
- Pomeroy-Mason Bridge (Successor)
Sources
- Casey Smith
- Kim Harvey
- Pomeroy-Mason Bridge Demolition
- Ed Hollowell - erhollowell [at] aol [dot] com
Comments
The info states it was imploded April 21, 2009.
Is the old bridge still there?
Streetview still has shots of old bridge with new under construction as of May 7, 2010. I added them but can't say how long they will stay on streetview.
June 18, 2009
Mason County couple get bridge souvenir in their bedroom
By The Associated Press
MASON, W.Va. -- A West Virginia couple got an unexpected souvenir from the demolition of the Pomeroy Mason Bridge when a piece of it landed in their spare bedroom.
When workers imploded the top half of a pier Wednesday, the blast sent a football-sized piece through the siding of Steve and Kelly Stewart's house in Mason. Kelly Stewart says the piece landed in a bean bag chair and missed her by a few feet.
She says she was standing in the room filming the demolition.
The pier on West Virginia's side of the Ohio River was the last major remnant of the bridge that linked Mason with Pomeroy, Ohio. A new bridge opened in December.
The new bridge has opened and the old bridge awaits its removal.
What happen to the new bridge? Why did the work on the new bridge stop? I drive over the old one all the time and am afraid that it will fall. The bridge on the Ohio River in porterfield and parkersburg WV. is done now and it started after they did. So what is the hold up?
This is a Mount Vernon Bridge Co. bridge. Please send any additional information about this company to me at jlgibson@ecr.net and check our Knox County (Ohio)Historical Society website (www.knoxhistory.org) for more info on the MVBCo. soon.
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