How common is it for barges to come loose during flooding?
Lemme put it like this...
According to USCG data, between 1992 and 2001, there were 2,692 REPORTED commercial collisions with bridges or USACE managed locks and dams on navigable rivers.
That's an average of one collision every non-winter day of the year.
The AASHTO impact protection standards for bridge piers are deliberately designed to take a standard 35x195 barge drifting in the current of a 100 year flood.
How common is it for barges to come loose during flooding?
Lemme put it like this...
According to USCG data, between 1992 and 2001, there were 2,692 REPORTED commercial collisions with bridges or USACE managed locks and dams on navigable rivers.
That's an average of one collision every non-winter day of the year.
The AASHTO impact protections standards for bridge piers are deliberately designed to take a standard 35x195 barge drifting in the current of a 100 year flood.
How common is it for barges to come loose during flooding?
Lemme put it like this...
According to USCG data, between 1992 and 2001, there were 2,692 REPORTED commercial collisions with bridges or USACE managed locks and dams on navigable rivers.
That's an average of one collision every non-winter day of the year.
The AASHTO impact protections standards for bridge piers are deliberately designed to take a standard 35x195 barge drifting in the current of a 100 year flood. That is a requirement of any commercially navigated river in the US and has been the standard (as far as I'm aware) since the 60's.
How common is it for barges to come loose during flooding?
Lemme put it like this...
According to USCG data, between 1992 and 2001, there were 2,692 REPORTED commercial collisions with bridges or USACE managed locks and dams on navigable rivers.
That's an average of one collision every non-winter day of the year.
The AASHTO impact protections standards for bridge piers are deliberately designed to take a standard 35x195 barge drifting in the current of a 100 year flood.
How common is it for barges to come loose during flooding?
Lemme put it like this...
According to USCG data, between 1992 and 2001, there were 2,692 REPORTED commercial collisions with bridges or USACE managed locks and dams on navigable rivers.
That's an average of one collision every non-winter day of the year.
The AASHTO impact protections standards for bridge piers are deliberately designed to take a standard 36x195 barge drifting in the current of a 100 year flood.
How common is it for barges to come loose during flooding?
Lemme put it like this...
According to USCG data, between 1992 and 2001, there were 2,692 REPORTED commercial collisions with bridges or USACE managed locks and dams on navigable rivers.
That's an average of one collision every non-winter day of the year.
The AASHTO impact protections standards for bridge piers are deliberately designed to take an a standard 10x60m barge drifting in the current of a 100 year flood.
How common is it for barges to come loose during flooding?
Lemme put it like this...
According to USCG data, between 1992 and 2001, there were 2,692 REPORTED commercial collisions with bridges or USACE managed locks and dams on navigable rivers.
That's an average of one collision every non-winter day of the year.
The AASHTO impact protections standards for bridge piers are deliberately designed to take an a standard 10x60m barge drifting in the current. Because it happens all the time.
How common is it for barges to come loose during flooding?
Lemme put it like this...
According to USCG data, between 1992 and 2001, there were 2,692 REPORTED commercial collisions with bridges or USACE managed locks and dams on navigable rivers.
That's an average of one collision every non-winter day of the year.