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Interstate 40 Bridge Over Mississippi River Reopen Beginning Monday
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I-40 Bridge Over Mississippi River Likely Won t Reopen Until August
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Credit Arkansas Department of Transportation
The U.S. Coast Guard has reopened traffic on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn., after a three-day delay caused by a crack in an interstate bridge.
The I-40 bridge between Arkansas and Tennessee remains shut down to road traffic. The crack found Tuesday goes through a steel beam crucial for the bridge s integrity. More than 45 tug boats hauling about 700 barges had been idled along the river south and north of the bridge.
The river s reopening Friday should ease concerns that an extended closure of barge traffic could hurt the region’s economy and have ripple effects on the nation’s supply chain.
Credit Arkansas Department of Transportation
The “significant fracture” that shut down the 48-year-old Hernando de Soto Bridge across the Mississippi River between West Memphis and Memphis on Tuesday could have led to a “catastrophic event,” according to Arkansas Department of Transportation Director Lori Tudor, and it’s too early to tell when either a short-term or long-term solution will be available.
The fracture is located about three-fourths of the way across the bridge from West Memphis to Memphis near where the two arches meet to form an “M.”
Tudor made her remarks during a Wednesday press conference where she said the fracture was discovered early in the afternoon on May 11 and occurred on one of two 900-foot, 24-inch-by-32-inch steel beams supporting the span across the river. In a press conference in Memphis, Tennessee Department of Transportation Chief Engineer Paul Degges said it was too early to tell when the bridge will reopen.
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