The Muskogee Phoenix
August 3, 2009
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The Oklahoma Department of Transportation plans to construct 15
concrete pier protection cells on three highway bridges across the
Arkansas River.
David Orzechowski, bridge management specialist with
the U.S. Coast Guard, said the Coast Guard’s Eighth District has
received applications to amend original bridge permits to authorize the
cells.
Under the applications, six 12-foot concrete cells will be
built on the right upstream side of the U.S. 62 bridge just east of
Muskogee. Also, nine 12-foot concrete cells will be built on the
upstream side of the U.S. 64 bridge east of Webbers Falls; two cells
will be on the right side of the river and seven on the left, he said.
Five 12-foot concrete protection cells will be built on the right
upstream side of the Interstate 40 bridge east of Webbers Falls.
Orzechowski said he did not know when the protection cells would be built.
“The cells are short piles filled with rock and concrete, they add more pier protection on the waterway,” he said.
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