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April 19, 2006

Salvaging of old Jamestown span begins tomorrow

There's little rest for the old Jamestown Bridge, whose center span was blasted into Narragansett Bay yesterday.

Tomorrow, the process of salvaging its steel from the waters of the Bay's West Passage will begin. It will take about a month for barges and divers to recover the steel, which will then be sold for recycling.

During that time, the passage between the Narragansett shore and the island of Jamestown will be shut down.

More of the remaining span will be demolished in another blast, now scheduled for mid-May.

Miss yesterday's explosion? Take a look at projo.com and Journal coverage, including projo.com readers' photos and comments, at: http://www.projo.com/extra/2006/jamestownbridge/

More in tomorrow's Journal and on projo.com ...

-- With reports from Journal staff writer Arthur Gregg Sulzberger

Posted by Andrea Panciera  at 5:56 PM | Permalink

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