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Pequea Creek Bridge

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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Description 

FROM THE 1996-2001 PENNSYLVANIA HISTORIC BRIDGE SURVEY: The 2 span, 135'-long, reinforced concrete deck arch bridge built in 1923 has concrete balustrades with paneled posts, paneled spandrel walls, and pilasters over the piers and abutments. The flared wingwalls are surmounted by pipe railings. The bridge has spalls and shotcrete patching at the fascia. Deck arch bridges began appearing in numbers in Pennsylvania about 1905 and they were ubiquitous by the 1910s. Over 200 examples from before 1916 survive, and 270 reinforced concrete closed spandrel arch bridges predate 1920. This later 1923 example has no unusual or noteworthy features. It is not historically or technologically distinguished by its setting or context.

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Overview
Concrete arch bridge over Pequea Creek on PA 741
Location
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1923
Builder
- F.H. Shaw, (County Engineer)
Design
2 span reinforced concrete deck arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 134.8 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.99000, -76.21833   (decimal degrees)
39°59'24" N, 76°13'06" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/395986/4427358 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Quarryville
Inventory numbers
PA 36 0741 0330 0000 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 21308 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 31115 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 07/2008)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 46.4 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
5,769

Categories 

Arch (9,419)
Built 1923 (415)
Built during 1920s (7,033)
Closed-spandrel arch (2,758)
Deck arch (8,699)
F.H. Shaw, (2)
Have street view (9,889)
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (121)
 Open (28,309)
Owned by state (9,807)
Pennsylvania (3,037)
Pequea Creek (10)
Span length 50-75 feet (6,995)
Structurally deficient (16,678)
Total length 125-175 feet (4,136)

Update Log 

  • May 28, 2012: Updated by Jodi Christman: Added builder and description and bridge design
  • November 3, 2011: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
  • September 5, 2010: Updated by D. Thomsen: Pequea Creek

Sources 

  • D. Thomsen - dcthomsen [at] comcast [dot] net
  • Nathan Holth
  • Jodi Christman - masterofchaos [at] outlook [dot] com

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