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An idyllic scene, soon to be gone; in the pictures, you will see a crew drilling test cores into the riverbed to determine the best locations for the new bridge piers.
Photo taken by Robert Thompson in October 2009
BH Photo #148346
This is the only remaining highway lift span on the Upper Fox RIver system. It is scheduled to be replaced in 2011 by a generic fixed concrete span. A similar bascule span used to carry US 10 across the Wolf River at Fremont, Wisconsin; that span was replaced in the 1970's with a modern highway bridge. Other spans, apparently of identical design, were built at Kewaunee and Muscoda Wisconsin and in Sussex County, Delaware (Central Avenue Bridge).
That is ridiculous. There wasn't anything severely wrong with the bridge. The simple, manual aspects of the bridge were very unusual like the manual operation chains and the primitive tail lock at the end of the leaf.
I live in Wisconsin, and I love everything about it--except for its terrible bridge preservation record! This, one of the most unique and one-of-a-kind bridges in the state, has been demolished. New Google Earh satellite imagery shows a new, shiny, disgusting, nauseating UCEB where it once stood. Appalling.
http://oshkoshhub.thenorthwestern.com/article/20120103/OSH01...
Berlin WI Boat Club requests more vertical clearance on UECB slated to replace bascule span
Well, that's a total poop-quake.