The damage is only visible from underneath and to a trained eye. Until a more thorough inspection can be done, the bridge has gone from an unrestricted weight to a 20-ton maximum.
) - The Baldwin County Highway Department has put new weight restrictions on the Scenic 98 bridge adjacent to The Grand Hotel, effective immediately. This comes after engineers found damage to the bridge during a recent routine inspection.
20-ton weight restriction placed on bridge over Point Clear Creek after damage found during inspection“There’s some cracking in some of the concrete. Normally, we see this when we have saltwater intrusion and the steel reinforcement within the concrete starts rusting and then it swells and so, it will form cracks in some of the concrete members,” explained Assistant County Engineer, Mark Acreman.
“If you’re in a normal vehicle, there’s no reason to be concerned at all,” assured Acreman. “This is us being overly cautious about a bridge and the inspection report. Larger vehicles…and there’s plenty of opportunities to route around this location. You’ve got Section Street. You’ve got US Highway 98 to County Road 32 which is only about a mile.”
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