1934,1989+2016 Spring Valley Bridges over Illinois River at Spring Valley, IL

1934: (Archived Bridge Hunter; John A. Weeks III; Historic Bridges)

2016: (Satellite) Illinois Valley Veterans Memorial Bridge [Illinois]

The 1934 bridge was imploded Aug 22, 2018. [BridgeHunter]

John Weeks
1775' (541m) long with a main span of 364' (111m) and a clearance of 63' (19.2m)

HistoricBridges, Photo Courtesy Art Kistler, IDOT

Ryan Giacometti posted

Kayaking under the Spring Valley Bridge, 

Summer of 2006

This web page has six construction photos of the 2016 bridge.

 

Kristie Platt posted
Taken June 27th, 2018, the new & old bridges

Dennis Glynn commented on Kristie's post, cropped

This video allowed me to determine that the new bridge used steel girders.

0:36 video @ 0:08

They had previously removed the two southern spans.

0:37 video @ 0:08