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Belle Vernon Bridge

Washington County, Pennsylvania, and Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
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Photo taken by James Baughn in July 2009

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Overview
Cantilevered arch bridge over Monongahela River on I-70 in Speers
Location
Belle Vernon, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1951; rehabilitated 1993
Design
Cantilevered steel through arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 450.2 ft.
Total length: 2,066.0 ft. (0.4 mi.)
Deck width: 53.2 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 18.6 ft.
Also called
Speers Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.12658, -79.87828   (decimal degrees)
40°07'36" N, 79°52'42" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/595573/4442408 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
California
Inventory numbers
PA 62 0070 0400 1415 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 34533 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 31736 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 09/2009)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 43.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
14,148

Categories 

Arch (9,667)
Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania (2)
Built 1951 (163)
Built during 1950s (2,460)
Cantilevered (246)
Flared (407)
Functionally obsolete (7,109)
Historic Bridge Weekend 2009 (19)
Interstate 70 (26)
Monongahela River (37)
Navigable waterway (1,548)
 Open (29,386)
Owned by state (10,150)
Pennsylvania (3,163)
Skewed (4,105)
Span length 250-500 feet (895)
Steel through arch (178)
Suspended Deck Through Truss (22)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,272)
Washington County, Pennsylvania (101)
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (52)

Update Log 

  • January 21, 2009: Updated by Ian Anderson

Sources 

  • Ian Anderson - macsignals [at] gmail [dot] com
  • James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
  • Wikipedia
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Belle Vernon Bridge
Posted January 21, 2009, by Ian Anderson (macsignals [at] gmail [dot] com)

I found some pictures/postcards (copyrighted) of the bridge that crossed here before I-70 was built, and its successor. Also visible in some of them is one of PA's two known K-Trusses, on a railroad.

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jmohney/new_page_178.htm

Ian.