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Goddins Pond Dam
Photos
Side view from pond
This is looking northeast from the pond side.
Photo taken by Roger Deschner in September 2020
BH Photo #480754
Description
SR 600 Holly Fork Road crosses Philbates Creek on the dam that holds back Goddins Pond. This a scenic, idylic location, popular for fishing.The bridge is essentially the top of the spillway, and is in poor condition. A portion of the deck has been replaced with a steel plate. It has a 4 ton weight limit.
The dam itself was rated to be in poor condition on 6/17/1993, and it was noted then that failure of the dam would "take out" State Route 600.
Facts
- Overview
- Slab bridge atop dam over Philbates Creek on VA 600 Holly Fork Road
- Location
- New Kent County, Virginia
- Status
- Open to traffic, 4 ton weight limit
- History
- Built to impound a pond for a mill. The mill is long gone, but Goodins Pond remains for recreational purposes.
- Design
- Dam carrying road on slab bridge atop spillway.
- Also called
- Holly Fork Road Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.48300, -76.79407 (decimal degrees)
37°28'59" N, 76°47'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/341379/4149966 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 90541 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com
- Unregulated Dams in Charles City and New Kent Counties
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This was another one of those random finds when I was driving along a highway, and I saw a "Weight Limit" sign for a side road. There is almost always something interesting on that side road.
This time I found a state road crossing a bridge atop an old dam, both in poor condition. The 4 ton weight limit may be to protect the dam as much as the bridge. An overweight truck could collapse this whole dam, and drain Goddins Pond.