Pond Eddy Bridge

Pond Eddy Bridge
Coordinates	41°26′21″N 74°49′13″W / 41.43917°N 74.82028°W / 41.43917; -74.82028
Carries	State Route 1011 (Pennsylvania)[1] CR 41 (New York)[2]
Crosses	Delaware River
Locale	Pond Eddy, NY-PA
Owner	New York–Pennsylvania Joint Interstate Bridge Commission
Maintained by	New York–Pennsylvania Joint Interstate Bridge Commission
Heritage status	NRHP #88002170
ID number	000000000029949[3]
Characteristics
Design	Petit truss
Material	Steel, wood
Total length	521 feet (159 m)
Width	12 feet (3.7 m)
No. of spans	2
Load limit	4 tons
Clearance above	13.5 feet (4.1 m)
Clearance below	31 feet (9.4 m)
History
Designer	Oswego Bridge Company
Constructed by	Oswego Bridge Company
Opened	1903
Statistics
Daily traffic	29
Location

The Pond Eddy Bridge is a petit truss bridge spanning the Delaware River between the hamlet of Pond Eddy in Lumberland, New York and the settlement informally called Pond Eddy in Shohola Township, Pennsylvania. It is accessible from NY 97 in Lumberland on the New York side and two dead-end local roads, Flagstone Road (State Route 1011) and Rosa Road on the Pennsylvania side. The bridge was built in 1903 by the Oswego Bridge Company to replace an old suspension bridge that had washed away in a flood earlier in the year. It connected the bluestone quarries in Pennsylvania to New York.

The bridge remained intact for many years and, in 1963, it was rededicated as the All Veterans Memorial Bridge by two local veterans groups.^[4] In 1998, it was nominated for the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for its engineering significance; it is also listed in the New York State Register of Historic Places.^[5]

Over the years, the bridge's condition has deteriorated, weakening its retaining strength. The National Bridge Inventory Survey categorizes its condition as "Structurally Deficient" and "Basically intolerable requiring high priority of replacement".^[3] In 2005, the town of Narrowsburg passed a resolution calling on the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to replace the bridge. There has also been a local movement to save the bridge. The bluestone quarries are no longer active, but the bridge still serves as the only access to 26 homes on the Pennsylvania side and the only access those residents have to emergency services. Because of the state of the bridge, planning for its replacement began in 1999. An accident involving a dump truck in 2015 accelerated the replacement of the bridge, completed in November 2018.