Commissioners award contract to replace the Division Street bridge

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning County commissioners awarded this morning a $1,588,000 contract to replace the Division Street bridge over the Mahoning River to Marucci & Gaffney Co. of Youngstown.

The company must first bore under the river to relocate an 18-inch water supply pipeline serving the Vallourec Star steel pipe-making complex. The pipeline now crosses the bridge.

Once that is accomplished, the bridge will close for the nine-month demolition and replacement project.

The structurally-deficient, 1939-vintage steel truss bridge is “functionally obsolete” because its 22-foot-wide roadway is too narrow for the area’s truck traffic, according to Randy Partika, county bridge engineer.

The new bridge will feature a concrete slab deck with a 30-foot-wide roadway supported by steel beams.