A total of 41 bridges on Interstate 78 in Warren, Hunterdon and Somerset counties will be worked on this year. Watch video
Work on 41 bridges along stretches of Interstate 78 in Warren, Hunterdon and Somerset counties will begin Monday, the New Jersey Department of Transportation announced Friday.
The nearly $2.2 million federally-funded preventative bridge maintenance project will continue through the end of the year. Work includes deck patching, curb repair, expansion joint reconstruction, header reconstruction, sidewalk repair, deck crack repairs, cleaning of drainage systems, power washing and the application of a corrosion inhibitor, according to a news release.
Power Concrete Co., Inc. is scheduled to begin bridge work Monday on Tunnel Road under Interstate 78 in Bethlehem Township in Hunterdon County.
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Work taking place Monday through Friday will be restricted to off-peak hours, mid-morning to mid-afternoon, or overnight hours, and there will be no lane closures. In addition, work will not take place on more than two bridges at the same time.
Temporary lane closures may require flag men and alternating traffic on local roads that provide only one travel lane in each direction.
Work to all 41 bridges will initially begin below each structure, including repairs to abutment walls and piers, epoxy waterproofing and lubrication of bearings. In the spring, work will switch onto the other areas of the bridges, as weather permits.
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Bridge work will move eastward along Interstate 78 through Union, Clinton, Readington and Tewksbury townships in Hunterdon County and end in Bedminster in Somerset County.
Additional work will also take place on the bridges located westward from Bethlehem along Interstate 78 in Bloomsbury in Hunterdon County, as well as in Franklin and Greenwich townships in Warren County.
Some of the bridges carry the expressway over local roads, while others carry local roads over the expressway.
Recent projects along Interstate 78 in Central Jersey include a 2012 repaving project along the stretch of the expressway in Warren County owned by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, bridge painting projects in Hunterdon and Somerset counties in 2013 and, in 2008, a $16.6 million, 8-mile paving project in Hunterdon County.
