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VDOT: single overnight closure likely to replace damaged beam on I‑81 bridge near Woodstock
Summary
VDOT told the Shenandoah County Board the North Street (Route 604) bridge suffered structural damage after a Sept. 2025 truck strike; emergency beam replacement contract awarded Jan. 9 with a contractor planning a single overnight closure (visual target March 7) and broad detour and communications plans.
Virginia Department of Transportation incident manager Jeff Boyer briefed supervisors Jan. 13 on emergency repairs after a dump truck struck a beam on the Route 604 (North Street) bridge in Woodstock in September 2025. Engineers later found structural, not merely cosmetic, damage to an outside beam, Boyer said. "That is just one beam damaged," he said, and contractors now aim to remove the old beam and set a new one in a single closure.
VDOT awarded the…
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