Saturday, September 4, 2021

1978 I-57 Bridge over Mississippi River near Cairo, IL

(Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; John A. Weeks III; Satellite)

John Weeks

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"The optimum design alternative featured a three-span (517 feet – 821 feet – 517 feet) continuous truss, with the center span designed as a tied arch. The river piers, now supported on open dredged caissons, rest on dense sand over 80 feet below the river bottom."
A special computer program was developed to account for earthquake generated forces.

Katherine Hutto posted
Kate Primeaux: Where’d the water go. [Some of the watershed has had a drought during the Summer of 2021.]

Katherine Hutto commented on her post
Second pic....different angle

"Construction of main span" submitted by Mark Frazier on BridgeHunter

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