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Facts
- Overview
- Vertical lift bridge over Bayou Lafourche on LA 1 at Leeville
- Location
- Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- Scheduled for replacement by a new fixed-span bridge along a four lane highway connecting Port Fourchon and Golden Meadow
- History
- Built 1970
- Design
- Vertical lift Pony plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 181.1 ft.
Total length: 2,646.3 ft.
Deck width: 28.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.3 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.24680, -90.20775 (decimal degrees)
29°14'48" N, 90°12'28" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/771373/3238562 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Leeville
- Inventory number
- BH 19053 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 12/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 45.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 10,900