Yolo County, California Bridges: County Road 158 Bridge across Elk Slough

July 2013 (38.34167 Degrees, -121.58111 Degrees) Elk Slough Bridge

The County Road 158 (Cortland Road) Bridge (22C0025) is an eight span continuous reinforced concrete slab on pile extensions. The superstructure appears to be so thin that it's amazing the bridge can carry heavy trucks! The spans are 28 ft long and 32.5 ft wide. Each bent is composed of four piles and the outside piles are battered. The bridge is owned by Yolo County and built in 1959.

In the Google earth photo above we can see the Yolo County border (in green) following the Sacramento River along its east boundary before going southwest along Sutter Slough and then straight west to Shag Slough (just past the Deep Water Canal that goes northeast to the Port of Sacramento). Today's bridge crosses over Elk Slough, which empties into Sutter Slough.

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