Chandler Mill Bridge
Photo
Chandler Mill Bridge
Photo taken by smallerbones March 4, 2010
License: Public domain: Released by author
BH Photo #223027
Facts
- Overview
- Pony/through plate girder bridge over West Branch Red Clay Creek on Chandler Mill Road
- Location
- Chester County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- Future prospects
- A large group is trying save this bridge from demolition.
- History
- Built 1910
- Builders
- - George Dole of Wilmington, Delaware (Contractor)
- Nathan R. Rambo (County Engineer)
- Design
- Single span through plate girder seated on stone abutments.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 44.0 ft.
Total length: 46.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 2010
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.81148, -75.71334 (decimal degrees)
39°48'41" N, 75°42'48" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/438941/4407077 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Kennett Square
- Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 849
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 09001213 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
PA 15 7015 0408 0236 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 10681 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 43907 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of April 2015)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Imminent Failure (1 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 17.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- January 22, 2015: New photos from Patrick S. O'Donnell
- April 4, 2014: Updated by Frank Danberg: Bridge was closed to traffic in approximately 2012; status of rebuilding is not know.
- March 2, 2014: New Street View added by Dave King
- January 8, 2012: Updated by Jodi Christman: Added builders
- January 18, 2010: Added by Nathan Holth
Sources
- Nathan Holth
- Chandler Mill Bridge gets spot on National Register of Historic Places - Kennett Paper, Jan. 14, 2010
- Jodi Christman - masterofchaos [at] outlook [dot] com
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Frank Danberg
- Patrick S. O'Donnell - 1 [dot] 991km [at] comcast [dot] net
Comments
Workin' Bridges has entered into a contract with Kennett Township for our views on the restoration of Chandler Mill Bridge. On a site visit last week when the team (Nels, Julie, Jim and Dy) was just over the border in Yorklyn, Delaware for the announcement of historic bridge use, the crew met with Gwen Lacy and her team from The Land Conservancy of Southern Chester County and Kennett Township supervisor. This is in an effort to continue the use of historic bridges up Red Clay Creek. We will be providing our Scope and Estimate to the Township in a few days for this small bridge restoration to pedestrian usage with emergency vehicular potential.
Nice article on the bridge's preservation:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150206_Township_beats_Ch...
Another old bridge saved in PA!:
http://chaddsfordlive.com/2015/01/22/after-spanning-years-of...
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/pa/chester/chandler-mill/
We increased the "masters" on the team for this project's proposal. Mimh Enterprises (also from Michigan who worked with Nels on the st. Joe lighthouse) is an EPA certified lead paint abatement and painting firm who has worked with PPX system of coatings and likes to travel, did their part for the Scope and Estimate. Andrew DeGruchy, Master Mason, of Lime Works US, gave us a bid for the repair and re pointing for the bridge, as well. With this team, we were able to bid both the repair to 8-10 tons using in-kind restoration techniques and a plan that would have upped the loading but changed the engineering.
We look forward to hearing from Kennett Township.
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