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Little Bay Bridge
Description
This bridge was under construction for many years as part of a project to widen the Spaulding Turnpike. The original 1966 bridge was apparently retained, but with several modifications to both the substructure and the superstructure to support a wider roadway. Additionally, a new parallel bridge built to be identical to the 1966 bridge was constructed in 2016 and erected in a way that it shares the foundations of the original bridge. As such, the fact that the crossing is today a twin-span is not immediately obvious.
Facts
- Overview
- Steel stringer bridge over Little Bay Inlet (Piscataqua River) on Spaulding Turnpike
- Location
- Newington, Strafford County, New Hampshire, and Rockingham County, New Hampshire
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1966 as replacement for General Sullivan Bridge; extensively rehabiliated and rebuilt 2018
- Design
- Steel stringer
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 274.9 ft.
Total length: 1,598.2 ft.
Deck width: 71.5 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.11817, -70.82576 (decimal degrees)
43°07'05" N, 70°49'33" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/351469/4775555 (zone/easting/northing)
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 34,891
- Inventory number
- BH 89622 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of July 2018)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Excellent (9 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Excellent (9 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 85 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- June 17, 2020: New photos from Nick Boppel
Sources
- Nick Boppel - nickboppel01 [at] gmail [dot] com