Facts
- Overview
- Deck truss bridge over Lehigh River on PA 873
- Location
- Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1930; rehabilitated 1984
- Design
- Deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 164.1 ft.
Total length: 1,024.0 ft.
Deck width: 24.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.78278, -75.60667 (decimal degrees)
40°46'58" N, 75°36'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/448811/4514820 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Palmerton
- Inventory numbers
- PA 39 0873 0160 1840 (Pennsylvania bridge number)
BH 31194 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 11/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 56.6 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2002)
- 7,142