July 11, 2004 - adding cross beams on the west platform and moving ballast
Overview of the approaches and pylons
Here is the current position of the counterweight - near the 2nd anchor.
During the past week, the cross beams were added on the westward directed
platform segment and the anchor beams were added to the eastward directed
platform segment. The counterweight has been relocated.
The stacks of ballast were not obvious
on June 6 when the west pylon
platform was only 3 anchor-beams in length. Compare with
last week's location (July 4, above) - near the 4th anchor. This shift
is most likely a response to adding the 6th anchor extensions to the eastward
extension of the west platform
Here are the final west and east pier pairs for supporting the western
and eastern approaches. The southern pier of the west approach has been
extended to the same hight as the northern pier
(see July 4 photo).
Note (right) the white steel platform anchor extensions and cross-beams - which
were removed from the barge anchored
near the Yorktown (among the photos for staging).
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Attribution: C. Frank Starmer from http://ravenelbridge.net
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