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To: Straight Vermonter; HairOfTheDog
Those pilings don't look like they are in the water to you?

NO. Not from a scouring standpoint. Caissons on the bank do not have the same scouring effect that a caisson in the middle of the river would have.

This bridge stood for over 40 years. If scouring were a problem it would have happened decades ago.

1,434 posted on 08/01/2007 8:07:07 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius
If scouring were a problem it would have happened decades ago.

It took about 50 years for the US 51 bridge in Tennessee.

1,506 posted on 08/01/2007 8:40:12 PM PDT by PAR35
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