By Barry Eberling | DAILY REPUBLIC | September 28, 2009
SUISUN CITY - Solano County by next spring should gain a better bridge taking Grizzly Island Road over Hill Slough and will acquire an adjacent fishing platform as well.
Construction is under way on a $2 million replacement bridge on the narrow road leading into Suisun Marsh, a world of tules, sloughs, duck clubs and state wildlife areas open to the public. Workers have pounded 58 concrete piles into the ground to support the bridge deck, which has yet to be put in place.
The new fishing platform will be the old bridge. The county is leaving it in place, a nod to the number of people who fish along the shores of Hill Slough.
'I think it will be quite popular once it's done,' county Engineering Manager Paul Wiese said.
The old concrete bridge was built in 1950 and rests on 23 wooden piles that have deteriorated over the years. The county had to make emergency repairs about a decade ago, Wiese said.
'It's really not in the condition you would like to see for a bridge,' Wiese said.
Plus, the bridge is only one lane. Drivers must stop near it and yield to traffic coming from the opposite direction. The new bridge will be wider.
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