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

April 2013 (38.14278 Degrees, -120.66194 Degrees) Pool Station Road Bridge

Continuing south on Pool Station Road we crossed several creeks within a few miles of each other.

The San Antonio Creek Bridge is a three span slab bridge on wide pier walls and seat-type abutments. It's 118 ft long, 32 ft wide, on a 15 degree skew, and it was built in 2006.

Its interesting that all these bridges on Pool Road were built in the last few years. Perhaps Pool Road was recently upgraded (or recently built) by the county?

Note all the flood protection around the abutments. Its hard to believe that this little creek could become such a raging torrent!

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

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.

Calaveras County, California Bridges: State Route 49 Bridge across Calaveritas Creek

April 2013 (38.16167 Degrees, -120.64861 Degrees) State Route 49 Bridge

You may have noticed that yesterday's bridge crossed over the approach to another bridge.

Just south of the Calaveras Cement Company Bridge is the State Route 49 Bridge across Calaveritas Creek (30 0016). It's a seven span, 240 ft long reinforced concrete T girder bridge with a 60 ft span over the creek. The bridge was built in 1930 so it was here when they were building the railway bridge. It's only 24 ft wide between the curbs so it is functionally obsolete. They put infill walls between the columns on each side of the creek, which suggests it periodically over-runs its banks.

Calaveras County, California Bridges: State Route 49 Bridge across Calaveritas Creek by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.