Main Street Bridge in Slatington and Walnutport to close for repairs
The Main Street bridge that connects Walnutport to Slatington will close later this month for deck replacement. TERRY AHNER/TIMES NEWS
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Engineering District 5 announced work will begin on Aug. 7 to make repairs to the Main Street Bridge over the Lehigh River in Slatington Borough, Lehigh County, and Walnutport Borough, Northampton County.
The bridge is one of four in the Lehigh Valley being repaired under a $2.5 million contract.
The contractor anticipates closing Main Street on Aug. 7.
It will be closed and detoured between Route 873/Walnut Street in Slatington and Railroad Street in Walnutport.
The detour will use Routes 873, 248 and 145. The bridge is estimated to be opened in October.
The other three bridges being repaired under this contract are:
• Eaton Avenue Bridge over Route 378 in the City of Bethlehem, Lehigh County;
• Eighth Street/Albertus L. Meyers Bridge over Little Lehigh Creek, Harrison Street, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Fountain Park in the City of Allentown;
• Delabole Road over Greenwalk Creek in Washington Township, Northampton County.
Work on the bridges includes repairing steel, decks, beams, bearings, joints, and scour countermeasures for the bridges over waterways.
H&K Group Inc. of Skippack is the general contractor on the project to repair these bridges. Work is anticipated to be complete on all four bridges by October 2020.
For more information on projects occurring or being bid this year, those made possible by or accelerated by the state transportation funding plan (Act 89), or those on the department’s four- and 12-year plans, visit www.projects.penndot.gov.
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