LOCAL BRIDGES WITH T.I.P. FUNDING

RETTEW MILL ROAD OVER ASHMEAD ROAD OVER FOREMAN ROAD OVER COCALICO CREEK BRIDGE TOOKANY CREEK BRIDGE AMTRAK BRIDGE REPLACEMENT REPLACEMENT REPLACEMENT Ephrata Township, Lancaster Cheltenham Township, West Donegal Township, County, PA Montgomery County, PA Lancaster County, PA

RETTEW provided surveying, RETTEW is currently providing RETTEW provided preliminary engineering, and environmental engineering services to replace engineering, final design, and permitting for a two-span the structurally deficient construction management replacement bridge on Ashmead Road Bridge located services for this bridge Rettew Mill Road. Services over Tookany Creek. RETTEW replacement over Amtrak railroad included complete bridge will use formliners to replace the lines. RETTEW also provided and roadway engineering ornamental stone arch aesthetic environmental clearances and environmental analyses aspects of the existing bridge— including a wetland investigation involving wetland investigation, an important feature to the and delineation, cultural resource cultural coordination, categorical Township. coordination, and a categorical exclusion evaluation, and a exclusion evaluation and Section RETTEW is also providing PA DEP Chapter 105 permit 4(f) evaluation. roadway and bridge design, application. The new 130-foot- hydrology and hydraulic analysis, The new Foreman Road Bridge long prestressed-concrete and environmental and historical over Amtrak is a single, 94-foot bridge replaced the existing permitting. In addition, RETTEW span consisting of a prestressed- timber-covered bridge at the site. is coordinating closely with five concrete I-beam bridge structure. RETTEW obtained all required utility companies that have utility RETTEW designed the bridge approvals from PennDOT through lines attached to the underside of on a horizontal curve using the local match reimbursement the existing bridge. straight beams, which were program and also provided carefully located around the radial construction observation and alignment, so that the varying management services. overhangs fell within PennDOT ABCD awarded RETTEW an design criteria. Outstanding Achievement Award certificate for Rettew Mill Road Bridge. ACEC/PA also awarded RETTEW a Diamond Award Certificate. LOCAL BRIDGES WITH LOCAL FUNDING

WASTEWATER TREATMENT VILLAGE GRANDE BRIDGE MIDDLE CREEK ROAD PLANT BRIDGE OVER MILLER’S RUN COVERED BRIDGE REPLACEMENT East Hempfield Township, Ephrata Township, Lancaster Manheim Borough, Lancaster Lancaster County, PA County, PA County, PA RETTEW provided a full range RETTEW coordinated, designed, Following a flood event, RETTEW of engineering services for and permitted the reconstruction inspected this existing bridge over a 241-home age-restricted of the circa-1873, National Chiques Creek. The bridge pier community. As part of this Register-listed bridge which exhibited settlement indicative project, the site called for a stood on Rettew Mill Road for of undermining caused by stream bridge to be constructed to link nearly 140 years. When the scour. The Manheim Borough the roadway land network to bridge needed replaced, county Authority wanted to relocate the other communities, including and township officials were bridge leading to the wastewater the development’s recreational challenged with how to preserve treatment plant upstream trails. RETTEW investigated the historic Keller’s Covered Bridge— to better align with the new most economical structure, both the only white-painted covered entrance to the plant and keep in initial construction cost and bridge in Lancaster County. the existing bridge in service while long-term maintenance cost, and RETTEW, Lancaster County, the new bridge was constructed. selected a 100-percent precast- Ephrata Township, PennDOT, RETTEW designed a two-span concrete buried arch bridge. As a PA DEP and the Pennsylvania adjacent concrete box-beam result, we met the needs of the Historical and Museum bridge with a composite deck. community while proving a cost- Commission reached an The bridge size was necessary effective design that blended with agreement whereby the covered in order to adequately pass the the surrounding area. required storm events. In addition, bridge was disassembled, stored the project presented strict off site and reconstructed on floodplain requirements, erosion Middle Creek Road, replacing and sediment control measures, a steel truss bridge that closed NPDES concurrence, and an in 1990. The relocation allows archaeological investigation prior Keller’s Covered Bridge to to construction. maintain its listing on the National Register of Historic Places and remain part of Lancaster County’s covered bridge history.