1922 West Jefferson Avenue Bridge over Rouge River at Detroit, MI

(Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

This is in an industrial area so it is hard to find elevation views of this bridge. But I can tell from a street view that it is a Chicago-style pony truss trunnion bridge.

Street View

It is the only pony truss bascule bridge left in Michigan. "In 2013, the bridge was lowered onto a freighter prematurely causing severe damage to the center of the bridge. It was closed for years before being repaired and reopened. The center section (originally riveted) was replaced with a bolted replica, matching the original design, except for the use of bolts." [HistoricBridges]

The allision explains why a satellite caught some extensive construction being done on the bridge. It does not explain why an image with it up was merged with an image of it down.

Satellite

Jonathan Konopka posted
Seen here is the Kaye E. Barker passing the West Jefferson Avenue Bridge in Detroit, MI. The bridge is a bascule bridge that was built in 1922 and crosses the Rouge River. Photo credit belongs to Andrew Russell.

The above photo shows the laker going upriver. Andrew also caught it going downriver.

4 of 12 photos Andrew Dean Detroit posted with the comment: "It was a beautiful and calm Sunday morning on the Rouge River. Kaye E. Barker just finished unloading at Cliffs and was exiting the Rouge River."

Andrew Russell shared

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Note the blast furnace of the steel plant above the left leaf and the silos of Peerless Cement at the top of the right leaf. So this is a downbound view.

Andrew Dean Detroit posted
Whitefish Bay getting a G-Tug asssit out of the Rouge River, Jefferson Bridge shown open for them to pass through.

Carson Last posted
Bridges: The Algoma Niagara arriving Stern first under the Jefferson Street Bridge in the Rouge! To unload Salt! (2/15/24)
Joe Yanoschik: I find it interesting they're coming into the Rouge River to unload salt when there's quite an extensive salt mining operation about a mile away. Go figure, carrying coal to Newcastle.

The video from the above photo shoot.

4:00 video @ 3:27

Bonus: I need to research that power plant since it is obviously still operational.

4:00 video @ 3:01

Dennis DeBruler commented on Jonathan's post
On May 12, 2013 the Herbert C. Jackson allided with the bridge because the bridgetender lowered the bridge way too soon. She was legally intoxicated. The damage to the ship was $5,000 and to the bridge was $50 million. Repairs could not even start until 2015. I've read about bridges being lowered on ships before they got all the way pass the bridge, but this is the first time I've seen a bridge lowered before the ship even got to the bridge.
https://historicbridges.org/other/jefferson/report.pdf via
https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=other/jefferson/

1 of 8 photos posted by Interlake Steamship Company
Incredible images of our M/V Kaye E. Barker and M/V Herbert C. Jackson meeting on the Rouge River yesterday! We can't pick our favorite, how about you?
📸: Andrew Dean Detroit
[It looks like about half of the deck for the Gordie Howe Bridge has been built.]

1976 TVA Normandy Dam on Duck River near Normandy, TN

(Satellite)

TVA
Normandy is the largest of the nonpower dams on tributaries of the Tennessee River. Normandy also provides water for a fish hatchery immediately downstream. It is an earthen dam that is 110' high and 2,807' long. The water level in the Normandy Reservoir varies about 11' in a normal year.

TVA posted four photos with the comment: "Normandy Dam, located on the Duck River in middle Tennessee, is our largest non-power tributary storage project. It was developed as the first of two proposed projects to aid in the economic advancement of the upper Duck River region, with construction beginning on June 7, 1972. Today, Normandy Dam provides flood control, water supply, recreation, and economic development for the region."

Bradley Campbell: How do dams help with economic development?

Elijah Kirby: Bradley Campbell the lakes they create help with economic development. New gas stations, marinas (although none on Normandy), restaurants, rental businesses, parks, etc around the lake.

Harold L. Orr: What’s the name of the dam that was built and dismantled on the Duck River?

Karen Harris St Clair: Harold L. Orr Columbia Dam

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"Normandy Dam, which impounds the Duck, went to a spill rate of 12,200 cubic feet per seconds. This was combined with other lower-level outlets which were releasing another couple thousand to total 15,000 cfs being released earlier this week." It release close to 20,000 cfs in the 1990s. There are two lower-level sluice gates and a 36" valve. [t-g] So can the low-level outputs do 15,000-12,200=2,800 or 2,000 cfs?

Brent Moore Flickr, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 
Normandy Dam is a dam built by the TVA on the Duck River It straddles the border between Bedford and Coffee counties. It is the TVA's largest dam that does not produce any electricity. It was built in the 1970s for flood control, water supply and recreational uses.

1931+1951+2002 US-27 Bridges over Cumberland River and Abandoned Tunnel

2002: (B&T; Satellite) The 1931 and 1951 bridges were inundated by Lake Cumberland.

Tunnel: (Bridge Hunter; B&T; Satellite)

The 1931 bridge was high since the river used to be in a deep canyon.

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In fact, it was 108' high and it was the highest crossing in the state. It was 1,100' long and the adjoining tunnel was 182' long. [B&T-2002]

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Taken from downtown Old Burnside.

When I read "Old Burnside" in the caption above, I realized that Lake Cumberland inundated much more than a bridge and tunnel. This 1932 map doesn't have the new road marked. And the next map is 1954, and it shows that this area is flooded. But much of the town was indeed in the valley and it got inundated. 

1932 Burnside Quad @ 1:62,500

Today we have a UCEB (Ugly Concrete Eyesore Bridge).

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[The Cooper Power Station in the background still has coal in its storage pile and it consumes 600,000 tons per year.]

2 of the 4 photos posted by Bridges & Tunnels with Sherman Cahal with the comment:

Still waters surround the US Route 27 bridge and abandoned tunnel over the North Fork Cumberland River in Burnside, Kentucky.

The original crossing of the river was completed in 1931 and was considered the “last link” in the completion of a modern US Route 27, also known as the Cincinnati-Lookout Mountain Airline, as it removed the only ferry remaining on the route between Cincinnati, Ohio and Chattanooga, Tennessee. The tolled span was the highest crossing in the state at 108 feet from the low water mark on the river.

Also completed was an adjoining tunnel 182-feet in length.

As part of the Wolf Creek Dam project that created Lake Cumberland, the circa 1931 bridge and adjoining tunnel were replaced with a 1,130-foot-long deck truss structure in 1951. Construction started in 1999 on a four-lane replacement which was completed in 2002.

Check out more photos and history of the bridge and tunnel at http://bridgestunnels.com/location/burnside-bridge-us-27/ and http://bridgestunnels.com/location/burnside-tunnel/

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The river level was so high in the satellite view when I wrote these notes that I could not see the tunnel. So I found this view where the river level is low enough to expose the tunnel and the sun has a good angle.

Google Earth, Oct 2015

In this view the river is even lower and shows how US-27 must have been practically carved into the river bluff before it punched through the point.

Google Earth, Apr 2012

Lost NYC/(LS&MS/LE&W) Bridge on Shoreline of Sandusky, OH

(no Bridge Hunter; Satellite, only the remnants of the abutment is left)

Steve LaConte posted
LS&MS drawbridge; Sandusky, Oh. by Dutch Lane. Nov. 1978
Steve LaConte posted
Nov. 1978; LS&MS lift bridge, Sandusky, Oh. (off Dutch Lane behind old police station at Battery Park)
Norbert Scherger: My friend who grew up there steered me wrong I guess. 😀. So the big 4 ended about where the coal docks are?
Steve LaConte: Norbert Scherger Around Batterey Park. The Big 4 took over the old Mad River and Lake Erie western line. The Big 4; LS&MS and the LE&W shared a roundhouse about 1/4 mile west of the current Amtrak depot(Which was a union terminal for all three railroads) B&O had its own depot on Hancock st.
Bob Weston: Is that bridge still there?
Steve LaConte: bridge and line is now gone. Former mainline of LS&MS until line went south of Sandusky and station built on N. Depot St..
Geoffrey Moreland shared

Cleveland State University Library Photograph Collection from Old Bridge Hunter

Corey Brown commented on Bob Weston's comment
No not much of the right of way is either.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Corey's comment
Thanks for this information. I had assumed it was the predecessor to this bridge:
https://www.google.com/.../@41.4846236,-82.../data=!3m1!1e31959
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One can easily trace the lost route of the original LS&MS mainline through town including this lost bridge. But my 2005 SPV Map labeled the track that remained in the 1959 topo map as NW/LE&W. Comments in railroad confirm that LE&W and LS&MS shared trackage between CP242/Bay Jct. and the waterfront. In addition to accessing industry along the waterfront, I think the LE&W used to trackage to help form a loop to turn their trains around and to access the shared depot and shared railyard that Steve LaConte mentioned in a comment above. In the following, a yellow rectangle highlights the shared railyard. A blue line shows the LE&W track that joined the LS&MS line to the depot at CP240/BO Tower. The red line is the original LS&MS mainline that was already abandoned by 1959. The purple line shows the shared route along the waterfront and across this bridge.

1959 Sandusky Quad @ 1:24,000

The same map before I marked it up.

1959 Sandusky Quad @ 1:24,000

The L&EW route was originally a Granger railroad that went all the way to Peoria, IL, which was a major gateway when railroads were king. [akronrrclub and  nkphts] So it would make since that L&EW would want to efficiently turnaround their trains at this terminus of their route.

1914+1951+2005 KY-90 Bronston Bridge over Lake Cumberland on Cumberland River near Burnside, KY

(Bridge Hunter-jack; Bridge Hunter-anon; B&T; Satellite)

Street View

The 1951 bridge was one of seven bridges that had to be built to clear the impoundment of Lake Cumberland by the Wolf Creek Dam.

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On Nov 17, 2016, this bridge was named the "Houseboat Capital Of the World Bridge." The first houseboat was built in Somerset in 1953. "Kentucky contains more navigable waters than any other state in the nation except Alaska, which makes Kentucky a wonderful destination for houseboaters."

 

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Another view of the 1951 truss bridge.

 

From the results of a Google search

The 2005 bridge is built with Corten weathering steel and cost $64m. [B&T] It is worth noting that the bridge that collapsed this year in Pittsburgh was built with Corten. Corten may have a problem with salted roads. At least this bridge should not see too much salt.

2017 Jack Schmidt Photo via BridgeHunter-jack

1 of 4 photos posted by Bridges & Tunnels with Sherman Cahal
The circa 2006 Burnside Bridge reflects in the nearly still waters of Lake Cumberland on a picture-perfect spring day in south-central Kentucky. It is the third iteration of a bridge along KY Route 90 over the South Fork Cumberland River. Check out more photos and an extensive history of the three iterations of the Burnside Bridge at http://bridgestunnels.com/location/burnside-bridge-ky-90/

Photo via StillSkies

Bonus: the UCEB US-27 bridge that is just upstream from this bridge. The Cooper Power Station in the background still has coal in its storage pile and it consumes 600,000 tons per year.

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1942 14mwNet TVA Chatuge Dam

(Satellite)

The Chatuge Dam was finished in 1942 and then hydropower was added in 1954 for 14mwNet. The dam is 150' high and is 3,336' long. In a year with normal rainfall, the water level varies about 10' between summer and winter pools. The flood-storage capacity is 62,600 acre-feet. [TVA] One normally doesn't see a powerhouse for an earthen dam.

TVA posted, Jun 2022
The Tennessee River Valley received 200% of normal rainfall in the last seven days, and some areas got over 10 inches! The influx of rain caused lake levels at tributary dams to rise above summer pool as we stored the water to reduce downstream flood impacts. As a result, we are releasing high volumes of water from Douglas, Fontana, Chatuge, Apalachia dams, and many of the dams on the main Tennessee River.  
If you plan to be boating, be alert for floating debris, strong currents, and swift water. Always wear a life jacket and be safe!

Monte Seymour commented on TVA's photo
Back in Feb

I wonder what the normal hydropower flow is. I need to remember to look at these numbers a few days from now.

TVA-levels

"Sport fishing is popular at Chatuge, both in the reservoir and in the Hiwassee River below the dam. A concrete weir has been installed below the dam to provide a steady flow of water in the riverbed and to increase oxygen levels for fish and other aquatic animals. Wade fishing for trout is popular here since fish are attracted to the weir, where food is abundant." [TVA] Parking lots for fisherman also makes things convenient for dam fans.

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This flow would add a lot of oxygen to the water.

TVA Web Team, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

 

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City County's Chatuge Dam, built in 1942 by the TVA, is seen here in 1958, after a power plant was added in 1952. Courtesy Photo
The dam was built with provision for the power unit.

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Screenshot, note the May 31, 2018 date

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Two of the photos on JanAndPat. I highly recommend this page because it is of the dam, not the lake.

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The "powerhouse". Chatuge's lone generator is good for about 6 or 7 Megawatts (our pamphlet said 10, but we've seen some other data that suggests that its not that much). It was not in operation at this time, and the lake level appeared to be down.

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A closer view of the pool below the turbine. Notice the "mini-dam" just under water here...maybe to keep a minimum level at the turbine? Dunno...

Screenshot, Easter weekend of 2019

1960,2006 US-31 Beacon Blvd Bridge over Grand River in Grand Haven, MI

(Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Street View

 

gbozik photography Flickr via BridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
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Photo via Facebook
"The drawbridge operates from Mar 15-Dec 15. Opening time is at 30 minutes past the hour. The bridge does not open at 7:30am, 12:30pm or 5:30pm on weekdays."

As Historic Bridges observed, it appears to be two separate bridges built side by side. Every source I've seen calls it a bascule bridge. I'm guessing that it is a trunnion bridge in particular. "A $3.5 million bike path was erected on the east span of the drawbridge in 2001. Re-balancing the bridge was a very large task and took careful consideration." [GrandHavenBridge]

Street View, Sep 2021

HollandSentinel [unknown paycount]
In addition to planned lane closures from 2021 to 2023, the bridge is no stranger to booboos. For example, it was stuck closed for a few hours Saturday, July 10, 2021, due to a short circuit burning out a relay.

This post was my motivation to research this bridge, and it is another example that this bridge seems to be rather "fragile."

Ottawa County Central Dispatch Authority posted, May 29, 2022

**The bridge is back in service**

MDOT is aware and trying to fix the Grand Haven bridge that is malfunctioning. At this time, try to avoid the area and use M-231 as an additional route around.

[This time it was stuck open.]

Fortunately, this boat docks downstream of this bridge. Looking at a satellite image, I could not find any evidence of commercial activity upstream of the bridge, just marinas.

Dennis DeBruler

MDOT did $850,000 of upgrades in Jan 2019 so that the bridge would not break down like it did on Memorial Day weekend in 2018. (That was a limit switch issue and they installed bypass switches for each limit switch. And they reduced the closure time from 9 to 7 minutes. The average usage is 60,000 vehicles per day. But it is around 120,000 during the summer.) [fox17online] Even with the $850,000 upgrade and a multi-million, 3-year construction program [GrandHavenTribune], the bridge broke down during this [2022] Memorial Day weekend.