8/27/2010: B2: 7/31/2010: B1: [Healdsburg Memorial Bridge]11/24/2009:A1: IMPROVING ITS SCORE: On a scale of 1 to 100, with 1 being the worst, a Caltrans assessment in 1979 led to the Healdsburg Avenue Bridge receiving a sufficiency rating of 2. But recent emergency reinforcements improved the bridge's rating to 46. Still, the City of Healdsburg began advertising for consultants to conduct a review on whether to replace the bridge.PC: The soundness of the Healdsburg bridge is not as bad off as Caltrans first thought. Instead of a 2 rating-with one being the worst- the bridge is now given a score of 47. That being said, officials are still spending over $1 million to investigate replacing or retrofitting the nearly 90 year-old span. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2009
The Healdsburg City Council on Tuesday will review options for saving the historic Russian River bridge.
The narrow, 89-year-old Healdsburg Avenue Bridge should be preserved as a bicycle and pedestrian crossing with a modern bridge constructed next to it, according to the "preferred alternative" of consultants Omni-Means Ltd.
But the recommendation has not proved popular with bridge preservationists, who question the need for building a concrete span adjacent to the steel-truss, 1921 bridge.
Consultants favor a $25 million project that would result in a new bridge and some seismic retrofit of the old one.
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