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Columbia County supervisors discuss options for historic bridge and approve replacement plan
Summary
Supervisors debated alternatives for a damaged local bridge during consideration of Resolution 56, with the public works committee favoring a lifecyle-cost-based two‑lane replacement and town leaders urging preservation of historic elements; the board approved moving the project forward and directed engineers to draft designs.
Columbia County Board of Supervisors members spent an extended portion of their meeting debating how to replace a county bridge after receiving community input and recommendations from a local bridge committee.
During the discussion on Resolution 56, a board member identified as Speaker 2 said the public works committee had reviewed multiple options and "pretty much picked... option 4" based on capital cost and 50‑year life‑cycle cost analyses. Speaker 2 said the public works committee did not support the local bridge committee’s alternative…
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