Calaveras County, California Bridges: Pool Station Road Bridge across Calaveritas Creek

April 2013 (38.16278 Degrees, -120.67278 Degrees) Pool Station Road Bridge

Pool Station Road is a mile west and parallel to State Route 49 through this part of Calaveras County. Calaveritas Creek continues west of State Route 49 and crosses under this cast-in-place single span box girder bridge.

The Pool Station Road Bridge (30C0035) is a 76 ft long structure on end diaphragm abutments that was built in 2001. The bridge is just south of some abandoned cement silos. However, a prosperous cement plant (owned by Lehigh which was formerly Calaveras Cement) is just to the east on Cement Plant Road. Geologists had found several lenses of limestone in the area which have been mined since the 1920s.

Note the little step dam under the bridge to dissipate energy and prevent flooding.

Calaveras County, California Bridges: Pool Station Road Bridge across Calaveritas Creek by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.