DENVER—Colorado highway officials will conduct special inspections of six steel-deck truss bridges in the state at the urging of federal authorities after the collapse of a bridge in Minneapolis.
Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman Mindy Crane said two of the bridges are in the state highway system and four are on county roads or city streets. She said all have been inspected regularly.
Crane said state officials will work with city and county officials to inspect their steel-deck truss bridges.
The Minneapolis bridge was also a steel-deck truss bridge but had at least one key difference from the Colorado bridges, said Mark Leonard, CDOT’s state bridge engineer.
The Minneapolis bridge had a continuous truss across several spans, Leonard said, but the Colorado bridges all have individual trusses for each span.
Leonard said he did not know whether any of the Colorado bridges in question covered more than one span.
The steel-deck truss bridges in Colorado are:
— On Colorado 120 over the Arkansas River, milepost 3.696 west of Penrose.
— On U.S. 24 over the Arkansas River, milepost 213.434 near Buena Vista.
— In Mineral County, on County Road Marsh Parkway.
— In Pueblo County, on County Road 273.
— In Pueblo, on Union Avenue.
— In Red Cliff, on Water Street.
