Bridal Veil Creek Bridge

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Photo taken by Michael Goff on July 27, 2008

BH Photo #118645

Overview: Girder bridge over Bridal Veil Creek on Historical Columbia River Highway in Bridal Veil
Location: Bridal Veil, Multnomah County, Oregon
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1914
Builders: - Charles H. Purcell (Bridge Engineer)
- Karl P. Billner (Design Engineer)
- Pacific Bridge Co. of Portland, Oregon (Contractor)
Design: The Bridal Veil Bridge is a reinforced concrete through girder bridge, and is the only one of its type in Oregon. Karl Billner stated that he designed the 20" thick parapet walls as continous elastic beams on multiple piers.
Information form the HAER report on the Bridal Veil Bridge
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 29.9 ft.
Total length: 118.1 ft.
Deck width: 20.7 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +45.55417, -122.18000 (decimal degrees)
45°33'15" N, 122°10'48" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 10/564002/5044841 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Bridal Veil
Average daily traffic (as of 2016): 1,300
Inventory numbers: OR 00823 (Oregon Dept. of Transportation structure number)
BH 36952 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of September 2017): Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 35.7 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Mike Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com
Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon - Dwight A. Smith, James B. Norman & Pieter T. Dykman, Oregon Historical Society Press, 1989
HAER OR-36-E - Historic Columbia River Highway, Bridal Veil Falls Bridge, Spanning Bridal Veil Creek, Troutdale vicinity, Multnomah County, OR
Richard Doody

Bridal Veil Creek Bridge

Posted September 7, 2010, by Craig Philpott (cphilpott [at] puc [dot] edu)

This gets my points for most interesting concrete girder bridge I have seen. Very interesting indeed.