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General Information

Completion: 1928
Status: demolished (23 April 2009)

Project Type

Structure: Through truss bridge
Cantilever truss bridge
Function / usage: Road bridge
Material: Steel bridge

Location

Location: , , ,
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Address: Ohio State Route 833
Crosses:
  • Ohio River
Carried:
  • U.S. Route 33
Replaced by: The Bridge of Honor (2008)
Coordinates: 39° 0' 47.87" N    82° 2' 30.86" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

main span 200.3 m
total length 563.3 m

Materials

truss steel

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Bridge of Honor, commonly known as the Pomeroy–Mason Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Ohio River between the American cities of Pomeroy, Ohio and Mason, West Virginia. With construction being carried out by the C.J. Mahan Construction Company and overseen by the Ohio Department of Transportation, it was completed on December 30, 2008. Ownership of the bridge was transferred to the West Virginia Division of Highways upon completion. The crossing carries Ohio State Route 833 and West Virginia Route Spur 62.

Construction issues

The bridge was originally scheduled to open in 2006. However, numerous unforeseen issues delayed the construction. Although work began in 2003, river flooding, poor soil stability, a rock slide, and potentially problematic formwork all caused setbacks in the building process. The final cost of the bridge was approximately US$65,000,000.

At night, the bridge is illuminated by purple lights shining on the cables and towers.

Former bridge

Constructed in 1928, the two-lane Cantilever bridge span once carried U.S. Highway 33. In 2003, it was renumbered to State Route 833 when US 33 was relocated along a new super-two highway to the Ravenswood Bridge. The original two-lane span's center span was demolished on at 8:49 a.m. EDT on April 21, 2009, with several hundred spectators viewing from the Pomeroy levee. The demolition was also broadcast live via an Internet feed on WSAZ from Huntington, West Virginia. An eight-year-old boy was selected to press the detonation button. River traffic was halted for twenty-four hours to allow for clean-up. The remainder of the bridge was removed by June 2009. The cost to remove the center span was approximately $1 million US.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Pomeroy–Mason Bridge" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

 

Participants

Currently there is no information available about persons or companies having participated in this project.

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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    20009534
  • Published on:
    28/06/2003
  • Last updated on:
    04/10/2017
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