WELLSBURG, W.Va. — The completion of the Wellsburg Bridge project has been delayed until next week.
The West Virginia Department of Transportation announced Wednesday work is set to end next Monday and Tuesday. Officials had planned for construction to end Friday and Saturday of this week but previously warned of a delay related to river and wind conditions.
The state awarded Flatiron Construction, a national construction company headquartered in Colorado, a $131 million bid for the project in 2016. Crews built the tied-arch bridge entirely offsite. It will be transported by barge one mile down the Ohio River and lifted into place.
Once completed, the Wellsburg Bridge will connect state Route 2 in Wellsburg and Ohio Route 7 in Brilliant, Ohio.
The bridge float and lift process is scheduled to begin Monday at 8:30 a.m., in which the bridge will be floated to the middle of the river before being floated downriver between the related piers. Crews will lift the bridge to the necessary height early Tuesday morning before pushing it upstream and lowering the bridge on the piers.
A livestream of the bridge float will be available at https://bit.ly/3dBUv7E.