Rating:
31084
{65}%
1 vote
Conestoga River Bridge
Description
FROM THE 1996-2001 PENNSYLVANIA HISTORIC BRIDGE SURVEY:
The 3 span, 300'-long, reinforced concrete deck arch bridge built in 1930 is supported on concrete bullnose piers and abutments with wingwalls. The bridge has plain pilasters over the piers and at the abutment corners rising to form the posts of the standard-design concrete balustrades. An approximately 30'-long section of balustrade has been replaced with a solid concrete parapet (ca. 1990). The reinforced concrete arch bridge technology was introduced in Pennsylvania about 1900 and by the early 1910s it was ubiquitous. This later example designed by the state highway department has no unusual or distinctive details. It is not historically or technologically distinguished by its setting or context.
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete arch bridge over Conestoga River on PA 324 (New Danville Pike)
- Location
- Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1930; rehabilitated ca. 1990
- Builders
- - PennDOT Bridge Division
- Whiting & Turner Contracting Co. of Baltimore, Maryland
- Design
- 3-span closed-spandrel arch, reinforced concrete
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 98.1 ft.
Total length: 299.9 ft.
Deck width: 29.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.99667, -76.31167 (decimal degrees)
39°59'48" N, 76°18'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/388029/4428211 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Conestoga
- Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
- 4,555
- Inventory numbers
- PA 36 0324 0220 1003 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 21225 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 31084 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of July 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 69.1 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- May 26, 2012: Updated by Jodi Christman: Added builder and description