Pomeroy-Mason Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Cantilevered through truss bridge over Ohio River on OH 833 (formerly US 33) between Pomeroy, OH, and Mason, WV
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- Replacement cable-stayed bridge under construction
- History
- Built 1928; rehabilitated 1976
- Design
- Cantilevered through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 657.2 ft.
Total length: 1,848.2 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.01333, -82.04333 (decimal degrees)
39°00'48" N, 82°02'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- ODOT 5300908 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure feature number)
BH 28001 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 06/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 2.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2001)
- 6,430
Comments
Pomeroy-Mason Bridge
What happen to the new bridge? Why did the work on the new bridge stop? I drive over the old one all the time and am afraid that it will fall. The bridge on the Ohio River in porterfield and parkersburg WV. is done now and it started after they did. So what is the hold up?
Pomeroy-Mason Bridge
This is a Mount Vernon Bridge Co. bridge. Please send any additional information about this company to me at jlgibson@ecr.net and check our Knox County (Ohio)Historical Society website (www.knoxhistory.org) for more info on the MVBCo. soon.