Charleroi-Monessen Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Monongahela River on PA 2018 in Charleroi
- Location
- Charleroi, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Demolished by PennDOT A Few Minutes Before 9:00 AM EDT, July 11, 2011
- History
- Built 1906 by the Mercantile Bridge Co.; rehabilitated 1986; closed 2009
- Builder
- - Mercantile Bridge Co.
- Design
- Pennsylvania through truss with Parker Truss spans on either side
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 400.0 ft.
Total length: 1,810.1 ft.
Deck width: 22.6 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.15167, -79.90500 (decimal degrees)
40°09'06" N, 79°54'18" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/593262/4445165 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Monongahela
- Inventory numbers
- PA 62 2018 0010 0089 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
NRHP 88000812 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
PANBI 34914 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 31746 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 04/2008)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 44.5 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2008)
- 10,349
Update Log
- July 11, 2011: Updated by Nathan Holth: This bridge has been demolished.
- March 8, 2011: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added Planned Demolition Date.
- September 29, 2010: New photos from Jason Smith
- November 29, 2009: New photos from Brian McKee
- July 22, 2009: New photos from James Baughn
- July 11, 2009: New photos from Brian McKee
- June 25, 2009: Updated by Ian Anderson
- April 18, 2009: Posted HAER photos
Sources
- HAER PA-467 - Charleroi-Monessen Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River at State Route 2018, North Charleroi, Washington County, PA
- Ian Anderson - macsignals [at] gmail [dot] com
- Brian McKee - bjmckee51 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Jason Smith - JDSmith77 [at] gmx [dot] net
- Nathan Holth
- Fox news video of bridge implosion July 11, 2011
- Wikipedia
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Bridgemapper.com - by Todd Wilson and Lauren Winkler
Comments
If you look at the photo in the below post, you most certainly will need a...
Here is an article that explains some of the issues that the contractor has run into with the reconstruction project.
Story Link: http://www.observer-reporter.com/article/20130115/NEWS01/130119536/-1/news#.UPy5-ie7N8E
The new bridge will be a haunched steel girder design, similar to the Veterans Bridge in Downtown Pittsburgh. All of the piers have been replaced and use formliners to simulate textured stone.
High quality picture of the new bridge under construction:
When this bridge reopens in 2013, it will be renamed the Gov. John K. Tener Memorial Bridge.
Link to story:
The implosion, with slow-mo.
Saw this video of the bridge's demolition on the Weather Channel's website:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/raw-historic-bridge-is-no-more-21256
Came across a news article about the bridge, it was closed last month due to structural problems, and now it appears this bridge's fate is in question.
http://www.observer-reporter.com/OR/Story/03-27-Charleroi-Bridge
And here's historicbridges.org's website on the bridge, with pictures.
http://www.historicbridges.org/pennsylvania/charleroi/index.htm
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/pa/washington/charleroi-monessen/