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Tulare County board authorizes eminent domain to replace crumbling Mineral King (Oak Grove) Bridge
Summary
The Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution of necessity to acquire about 0.6 acres of private property and a temporary construction easement to allow a new bridge upstream of the century-old Mineral King (Oak Grove) Bridge; the county said the existing structure cannot be rehabilitated because of deteriorated concrete.
The Tulare County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to adopt a resolution of necessity to acquire property needed to build a replacement for the Mineral King (Oak Grove) Bridge, a historic crossing that county engineers say is structurally failing.
Resource Management Agency County Engineer Reed Chenkie told the board the 1923 bridge suffers from severe concrete deterioration—what engineers call alkali-silica reactivity and carbonation, or “concrete cancer”—and cannot be repaired.
The county plans to build a new bridge slightly upstream so traffic can be maintained during construction. Chenkie said the design work is complete, a mitigated negative declaration under the…
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