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Governors Landing Bridge
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Amistad Reservoir Aqueduct
Looking SE
Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in September 2014
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BH Photo #294783
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
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Length of largest span: 200.1 ft.
Total length: 5,462.2 ft. (1.0 mi.)
Deck width: 29.9 ft.
- Recognition
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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
Why is this called an aqueduct? It is a road bridge.