Sauk Rapids Bridge
Coordinates: 45 ° 35 ′ 11 ″ N , 94 ° 10 ′ 10 ″ W.
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| use | tore off | |
| Crossing of | Mississippi River | |
| place | Sauk Rapids , Minnesota | |
| Entertained by | Minnesota Department of Transportation | |
| Building number | 5947 | |
| construction | Three-span steel truss arch bridge | |
| overall length | 172 m (565 feet) | |
| width | 12 m (38 feet) | |
| Longest span | 53 m (175 feet) | |
| Clear height | 4 m (12 feet) | |
| opening | 1942 | |
| closure | 2007 | |
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| Above sea level | 304 m | |
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The bridge was demolished and replaced by a new building. |
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The Sauk Rapids Bridge was a 172-meter-long, twelve-meter-wide tensioned arch bridge in steel framework construction , which spanned the Mississippi River and connected the cities of St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids in the US state of Minnesota .
It was built in 1942 and designed by the Minnesota Department of Transportation . The bridge had three spans supported by two pillars. The structure, the maximum span of which was about 53 meters, crossed the Mississippi River about 700 meters below the rapids of the Sauk River. The river is still flowing fast at this point and the water is churned.
With the completion and commissioning of the Sauk Rapids Regional Bridge on October 23, 2007, the Sauk Rapids Bridge was closed to traffic. The demolition of the old bridge began in November.
After the collapse of the Interstate 35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis on August 1, 2007, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty ordered the Sauk Rapids Bridge to be inspected. No problems were found with the bridge, which had a construction principle similar to the one that collapsed.
literature
- Mary Charlotte Costello: Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, Volume Two: Minnesota . Adventure Publications, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-9644518-2-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ I35W Bridge - A Transportation Agency's Emergency Response ( Memento from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.4 MB)
- ^ Sauk Rapids bridge over Mississippi close to being dismantled. St. Cloud Times, December 18, 2007; accessed February 9, 2011 .
- ↑ August 1, 2007: Five Years Later: How the Minneapolis Bridge Disaster changed the way we look at Bridges. (No longer available online.) August 1, 2012, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved November 22, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Upstream Sauk Rapids Regional Bridge |
Crossing the Mississippi River |
Downriver St. Cloud Rail Bridge |