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Amistad Reservoir Aqueduct

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Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in September 2014

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Description

21 steel stringer spans with 19 concrete stringer spans. The bridge won the 1965 first place prize for Medium Span-High Clearance bridges from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) as the Devils River Bridge.

Facts

Overview: 1965 Steel stringer bridge over Amistad Reservoir on US 90
Location: Val Verde County, Texas
Status: Open to traffic
Builders: - H.B. Zachry Co. of Laredo, Texas
- Mosher Steel Co. of Dallas, Texas (fabricator)
Design: Steel stringer
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 200.1 ft.
Total length: 5,462.2 ft. (1.0 mi.)
Deck width: 29.9 ft.
Recognition: Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Also called: Herbert C. Petry, Jr. Bridge
Amistad Reservoir Viaduct
Devils River Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +29.48648, -101.03409 (decimal degrees)
29°29'11" N, 101°02'03" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 14/302792/3263608 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Amistad Dam
Average daily traffic (as of 2013): 2,200
Inventory numbers: TXNBI 222330002209070 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 63083 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of October 2018): Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 64.4 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Update Log

February 13, 2021: New photos from C Hanchey
August 20, 2020: Updated by Nick Boppel: Use official name
September 21, 2014: Updated by Roger Deschner: Merge NBI data; Added category "US 90"
September 20, 2014: Added by Royce and Bobette Haley

Sources

Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com
Nick Boppel - nickboppel01 [at] gmail [dot] com
C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com

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