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Blue Creek Bridge
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Blue Creek Bridge
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BH Photo #464684
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete arch bridge over Blue Creek on CR 52
- Location
- Kanawha County, West Virginia
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- Scheduled for replacement in 2019
- History
- Built 1926
- Builder
- - Luten Bridge Co. of York, Pennsylvania & Knoxville, Tennessee
- Design
- Arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 62.0 ft.
Total length: 126.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.44773, -81.45607 (decimal degrees)
38°26'52" N, 81°27'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/460202/4255592 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Blue Creek
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 652
- Inventory number
- BH 35227 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of November 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 16.3 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- January 9, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- September 15, 2019: Updated by Mike Kerkau: Builder; bridge is also doomed
Sources
- Michael Miller - michael_a_miller [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Mike Kerkau - mjkerkau [at] gmail [dot] com
- Blue Creek Twin Arch Bridge
- Geoff Hubbs
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This one, I was able to verify that replacement is in the cards. The photos on Highways Through History include a Luten plaque.