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West Monitor Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Wenatchee River on Old Monitor Road
- Location
- Chelan County, Washington
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- Restored in 2010-11
- History
- Built 1907 by the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co., rehabilitated in 2010-11
- Builder
- - Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co. of Seattle, Washington
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 312.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on July 16, 1982
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +47.50103, -120.42561 (decimal degrees)
47°30'04" N, 120°25'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/693876/5264056 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cashmere
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 82004197 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 34151 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 06/2015)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 45.9 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2012)
- 351
Update Log
- October 29, 2016: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- August 25, 2016: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- November 15, 2014: New photos from C Hanchey
- December 15, 2008: New photos from Michael Goff
- June 26, 2008: New photo from Michael Goff
Sources
- Mike Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
Comments
West Monitor Bridge
Sounds like the engineer and contractor for the recently finished rehabilitation need to rethink how the boards are fastened in place. Perhaps screws would be better than nails in this case.
West Monitor Bridge
A recent AP report states that this bridge is now closed temporarily as the nails on the planks are popping out due to the vibrations of heavy farm equipment crossing it.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015357825_a...
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Actually, engineers would do well to study how decks were historically fastened together with little metal plate brackets through which nails would be driven. Holds the deck together very nicely.