Niigata Japan's Bridges: Utility Bridges across the U River (3)

August 2007 (37.360 Degrees, 138.550 Degrees) Utility Bridges

Some photos of the second utility bridge further upstream on the U River. This bridge has a triangular cross section with a single lower chord which does double-duty as a waterline. It's at the corner of a water (wastewater?) treatment plant which includes a sluice gate and four water pumps.

In these photos we can see how the big waterline goes vertically up the abutment and then turns horizontally to carry water over the river. A big corbel supports the end of the truss. A stairway carries workers onto the top chord which is provided with a walkway and hand rails.

Niigata Japan's Bridges: Utility Bridges across the U River (3) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.