dive team working examined three piers of the U.S. 68/KY 80 bridge over Kentucky Lake Tuesday to detect any critical shifting of the pier substructure.

During the summer of 2008, the technology provided IDOT with fast answers about the 5,760-ft-long, U.S. 20 bridge over the Mississippi River in Dubuque, when three barges broke loose and struck ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Crews are continuing to search for a motorcyclist who fell into the Ohio River after a crash on the ...

Called Sonar EMILY, ... “If it’s eroding to the point that it can cause failure of a pier or the structure that the bridge is actually resting on then it has to be looked at,” Weingarten said.

WATCH: Old Bay Bridge demolition options. It took 20,000 pounds of dynamite, strategically placed, to imploded the underwater support pier, which was five-stories tall and part of the old Bay Bridge.

Caltrans continued with the removal of the original east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Saturday by imploding Pier E5 of the Old Bay Bridge.

Other bridges are protected by barrier islands. The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge in Charleston, South Carolina, for example, has the foundations of its main support piers surrounded by artificial ...

For the reconstructed new bridge, which opened in 1987, engineers surrounded several of the bridge’s piers with a total of 36 large dolphins and placed other piers on substantial barrier islands.