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Save the Bridge group asks Waterville council for $16,000 to fund river safety buoys as preservation effort continues
Summary
Save the Bridge asked the Waterville City Council for a $16,000 donation to buy buoys and a 3,000-foot safety line to funnel kayakers under a safe arch; the group also reported petitions, outreach to state and federal officials and an engineer27s assessment while council sought insurance and cost details.
Dave Weber, speaking for the Save the Bridge Association, asked the Waterville City Council on March 23 for a city resolution to provide $16,000 to buy buoys and a 3,000-foot polyethylene rope to create two navigation "funnels" intended to route kayakers and fishermen under a structurally safer arch of the local historic bridge.
The group27s plan, Weber said, would reduce the probability of injury by steering river users away from the single arch the volunteers consider hazardous. "For $16,000 in materials ... you anchor it at the banks and you create these two funnels," Weber said, describing volunteers stringing buoys…
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