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Kaw River Bridge
Description
This may have been built in 1892 and lost in to ice 1962. It experienced serious damage from several floods and ice jams.Picture here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eudora_public_library/911848751...
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Kansas River at Eudora on Elm Street
- Location
- Douglas County, Kansas, and Leavenworth County, Kansas
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- Design
- Six Pratt through trusses with pony truss approach
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.95665, -95.09561 (decimal degrees)
38°57'24" N, 95°05'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/318418/4314054 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Eudora
- Land survey
- T. 13 S., R. 21 E., Sec. 5
- Inventory number
- BH 57829 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 7, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- September 1, 2013: Added by Clark Vance
Sources
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- Flickr - Postcard of bridge
- Eudora History - Description of Kaw Bridge
- Lawrence Journal-World - Reopening after 1935 ice damage
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
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It is widely believed by engineers that the true cause of this bridges failure was scour caused or worsened by the construction of the Eudora Bridge and the deflection of the river currents caused by it's piers. Ice damage was the immediate cause but the piers were already weakened by scour.