(BCN) — A portion of state Freeway 12 might be closed for a month starting Tuesday whereas crews demolish and rebuild a bridge in Sonoma County, Caltrans stated.
As a part of the Sonoma and Hooker Creek bridge alternative challenge, Freeway 12 between Madrone Highway and Agua Caliente Highway might be closed to take down and the rebuild Hooker Creek Bridge.
The bridge is situated northwest of town of Sonoma. Caltrans estimates that the challenge will take 30 days.
By means of visitors might be diverted across the closed bridge by way of Madrone Highway, Arnold Drive, and Agua Caliente Highway, Caltrans stated.
Map: Caltrans
Native visitors might be permitted so far as the closed bridge.
In accordance with Caltrans, the Hooker Creek Bridge is fabricated from concrete and is simply too brittle to be demolished in phases; due to this fact it’s not secure to maintain it open as crews take it down, not like the Sonoma Creek Bridge, which is fabricated from metal and robust sufficient to accommodate one lane of open visitors throughout development.
Each bridges are victims of “scour,” which Caltrans stated is a course of the place fast-flowing water whirlpools across the bridge columns and erodes the creek mattress.
Through the years, the bridge’s structural integrity might be strained sufficient that changing it solely is the very best resolution, the company stated.
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