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J08 ~ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1987 Church Street, which crosses the Carolina & Northwestern Railroad, at an estimated be 5% thereof, or $27,500.00. City Manager Brown pointed out that a recent cost of $550,000.00, of which--if Council's request is granted--the City's cost would inspection of this bridge structure, as well a subsequent engineering analysis, revealed serious deterioration in the structure's concrete deck, requiring a limitation on load weights crossing the bridge and the posting of load limit signs. Mr. Brown noted, further, that the cost of rehabilitating the structure will, of because some funds allocated or to be allocated for the scheduled projects must be necessity, postpone other street-highway proje~ts already scheduled in the City diverted to the bridge rehabilitation, now considered an emergency project. The adopted resolution follows: WHEREAS, as a result of an inspection by personnel of the City's Public Works Department of a bridge structure located in the City of Martinsville, Virginia (City), situated on East Church Street (U.S. Route 58) crossing the Carolina and Northwestern Railroad (Norfolk Southern) it was determined that the concrete deck of this structure has undergone serious deterioration; and WHEREAS, after discussion between officials of the City and the Virginia Department of Transportation, it was concluded that an engineering analysis of this structure should be made to determine the extent of deterioration and the estimated cost of rehabilitation or replacement of this structure; and WHEREAS, a consultant, Schwartz and Associates, Inc., of Lynchburg, Virginia, was selected to perform a study and analysis of this bridge; and WHEREAS, on September 11, 1987, the consultant submitted to the City the evaluation report covering the analysis of the bridge structure with a summary of their findings as follows: A. Major repairs to structure are required including replacement of a portion of the bridge deck. B. Load posting of the structure is required until the repairs are completed and the structure is strengthened. C. Two narrow lanes of traffic can be left open to carry traffic while the bridge is being remodeled.