Oklahoma Highway Patrol Reopens Bridge Over Arkansas River After Pilings Hit by Barge

Published on March 31, 2024

Oklahoma Highway Patrol said on Saturday that it had to temporarily close an Arkansas River bridge to traffic after bridge pilings were hit during a collision involving barges on the waterway. The South U.S. Highway 59 south of Sallisaw was closed for about an hour “due to a barge striking the bridge,” the state’s Department of Transport said in an update on X. “Engineers will conduct an inspection, which they estimate could last several hours,” the department said. Photos of the pilings hit by the barge shared by Oklahoma Highway Patrol show that surface layers of the concrete near the base of two pillars had been chipped away in the collision with a barge....

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