Placer County, California Bridges: Foresthill Bridge across the North Fork of the American River (5)

November 2012 (38.922 Degrees, -121.039 Degrees) Foresthill Bridge

After Yankee Jim's Bridge, the North Fork of the American River continues downstream for about five miles before reaching the Ponderosa Way Bridge, a pony truss structure that I still need to photograph (I also missed the Eucre Bar Bridge north of the Iowa Hill Bridges). Then the river continues for a couple of miles before it is contained behind Clementine Dam. The diminished river continues past the dam until it flows under the very tall Foresthill Bridge and joins the Middle Fork of the American River.

We haven't visited the Foresthill Bridge in a few years (since my blog of October 2009) so I drove up today to take some new pictures. As you can see, parts of the bridge are now covered in a tarp as they remove the lead-based paint and do other work to the bridge including a seismic retrofit. The estimate on all this work was $70 million and the winning bid came in at about $55 million. We'll take a closer look at the bridge and the repairs during the next few days.

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