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Beams installed at new bridge over Chattahoochee
Georgia DOT crews set six more bridge beams overnight Thursday for the new State Route 20 bridge over the Chattahoochee River. Each pre-stressed concrete beam is 110 feet long, six feet tall and weighs 80,000 pounds.
The 1.07 mile long project widens State Route 20 from James Burgess Road in Forsyth to Burnett Trail in Gwinnett to a four lane divided highway with sidewalks and includes new bridges over the Chattahoochee River at a cost of $10.2 million.
The corridor from Samples Road in Cumming across the Chattahoochee River to Peachtree Industrial Boulevard is under construction, in three separate projects totaling 7.53 miles. The existing bridge over the Chattahoochee River was built in 1947 and does not meet current design standards.
