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New top proposed for 5th St. Bridge By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
About a dozen local residents heard firsthand the list of four options on what to do to improve the Fifth Street Bridge in Chatham. The recommended option from Dillon Consulting is to tear off the top of the bridge and only rebuild that element. Adam Sullo, director of engineering for the municipality, said the consulting firm presented four options. The first is to do nothing, the second is to rehabilitate the bridge in a similar manner as the Parry Bridge on Keil Drive this past summer. He said that option would be relatively expensive for limited payback. “This would be a $3-million to $5-million effort, but we’d only get another 10 to 15 years of life and we’d be back in the same situation we are now,” he said. The fourth option would
be a full bridge replacement, with a price tag of an estimated $9.5 million, Sullo said, “not cheap.” That leaves the third option – replacing the bridge surface, but reusing the foundation. “We’d reuse the abutments on both sides of the bridge. The two centre piers would be taken down to just below the water line,” Sullo said. “It would be a fixed span.” And it would come with an estimated price tag of $6.5 million. He said all signs point to everything below the water line being stable. “The foundations on the bridge, we know there hasn’t been any movement. They’re on wood piles,” Sullo said. “Unfortunately we can’t inspect the wood piles, as they are under a concrete pile cap. But we are very confident in the condition of the foundation, as there has been no movement. Continued on page 2
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