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Ouachita River LA 2 Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Swing through truss bridge over Ouachita River on LA 2 in Sterlington
- Location
- Sterlington, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, and Union Parish, Louisiana
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1931
- Design
- Swing
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 319.8 ft.
Total length: 924.6 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.69667, -92.08667 (decimal degrees)
32°41'48" N, 92°05'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/585612/3618028 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sterlington
- Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
- 6,300
- Inventory number
- BH 19091 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of March 2010)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 4 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- August 12, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- June 13, 2010: Updated by Cliff Darby: Refined design
- March 22, 2010: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added Street View. Bridge is now doomed.
Sources
- Nathan Holth
- Cliff Darby - clif30 [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Douglas Butler
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Bridge is now gone. It was so narrow I hit mirrors with another pickup once when driving to work. It was built during the administration of Gov. Huey P. Long.