Thursday, March 21, 2013

El Dorado County, California Bridges: Happy Valley Cutoff Road Bridge across Camp Creek (2)

January 2013 (38.65778 Degrees-120.66278 Degrees) Happy Valley Cutoff Road Bridge
The Happy Valley Cutoff Bridge (25C0025) includes a 108 ft long steel truss span and two timber approach spans for a 179 ft long and 14 ft wide bridge. It was built in 1930 making it eligible to register as a historic structure but it has a sufficiency rating of only 16 out of 100 and a superstructure rating of poor. The photo below shows the timber and truss structures sharing a common support pedestal. Also, we can see that the truss is made up mostly of laced members (and steel rods).
We'll take a last look at this interesting structure tomorrow.
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El Dorado County, California Bridges: Happy Valley Cutoff Road Bridge across Camp Creek (2) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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