The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 07, 1922, Image 6
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Through the courtesy of Mr. Robert
G. Thomas, editor of the South
Carolina Highway Bulletin The County
Record is enabled to present to
its readers two very interesting pictures
of the Santee bridge and a
brief sketch of the work. These photo
engravings with sketch given here
appeared in the November issue of
the Highway Bulletin:
One of the great rivers of the
South is the Santee. Former! by the
confluence, a few miles below Columbia,
of the Congaree and the Wateree.
it reaches the sea near the center of
South Carolina's coast line between
Charleston and Georgetown. With its
various tributaries it drains most of
the State and a part of North Carolina,
about 15,000 square miles altogether.
Bordering the river on eac!
side are thickly timbered swamps
four or more miles wide, separating
an important jection of the State and
preventing free travel between the
two portions.
There is a highway bridge over the
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,Cong:aree at Columbia; and over the
j Wateree, there is one at Camden and
J one almost completed between Columbia
and Sumter; but there is 110 highway
across the Santee.
To remedy this situation, there i.now
under construction, begun June j
21. 1921, a bridge over the Santee ,
and a causeway across the swamp,;
near St. Stephens town, about 60> j
miles above the mouth of the river.
At the site the main channel is about 1
330 feet wide and the swamp is neai-,
lv four miles wide. In order to re- j
duce the maintenance charges to 1 j
minimum, all structures, except the j
river spans, are of reinforced concrete, j
The bridge is to have an 18-ft. road-;
way, and will be above the highest
known water.
As the Santee is a navigable;
stream, a draw span is provided.- The
main channel crossing has one 180-ft.
steel thsough-truss swing span with
63 feet clear opening and two 129-ft.
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The approach trestles have a total
length of about 6,000 feet. There are
seven trestles of lengths and positions
such as to provide for the most
effective discharge of the flood waters
?these trestles alternate with earth
embankments. The plans provided
for two types of structuie, one type
having 24^-ft. concrete beam spans |
on concrete pile bents, the other i
nedestal tvDe. havincr SB^-ft. concrete I
beam spans on cast-in-place bents on .
timber piles?the latter, however,
have been used to a small extent only.
There are four pre-cast piles to the
bent, the two outside piles being: put
up with a batter. These piles are
cast on the nearest high ground in
a yard which contains 70 forms.
They are left in the forms one week
and then lifted out and stored and
allowed to season one month before
driving.
The trestles were designed for ;
live load of two 15-ton trucks with
25 per cent, allowance for impact.
The embankment are to be 23 feet
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high, have a total length of 13,200
feet and will repuire 750,000 cubic
yards of earth. Material for the fills
is being taken from .borrow pits outside
the swamp. Progress is being
made on the fills on the Williamsburg
side of the river which require
70,000 cubic yards. The fills on the
Berkeley side involve the excavatior
of 680,000 cubic yards of materia]
from a 48-acre borrow ^pit. Undei
enefgetic superintendence with stand'
ard gauge equipment this part of the
work is proceeding rapidly, and the
average of about 40,000 cubic yard.1
a month will probably be maintainec
to the end.
In all there are now, at the em
of September, 440,000 cubic yards oi
earth fill in place; four river pier;
are completed and the draw-spar
erected; 490 concrete piles have beer
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driven, <111U I uu tuuticvc y xico 1I?^
been cast; and decks for 70 spans oi
trestle have been poured.
In order to protect the trestles frorr
the heavy drift carried by the Sante*
in flood, a strip of land 225 feet wid<
is provided on the up-stream side oi
the right of way, of which the timbei
is to remain standing so long as pro
tection of the trestles is necessary.
Wooden railings are to be used or
the embankments on account of th<
risk of settlement causing crackinj
of concrete railings. On the trestle;
a simple and pleasing form of con
crete railings, widely used in th<
South will be applied.
The State Highway Department ant
the Santee Bridge Commission le
this important work in three con
tracts: the steel spans to the Atlantic
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substructure of those spans, the river
piers, to the Simons-Mayrant Company,
Charleston, S. C.; and the remainder
of the project, the approaches
to the three main spans, to the Rollin
Construction Corporation, New York.
Retaining the concrete work and the
1 general supervision, directed by James
I Pinnell, superintendent, the Rollin
- Corporation sublet the earth work on
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Young Company of Macon, Ga., and
i Charlotte, N. C., and on the Williams5
J burg county side to P. 0. ArrowI
smith of Kingstree, S. C. The cleariing
of the right of way, 200 feet
j wide, and the construction of a temf|Porary
trestle was sublet to Bryant
5 LaBruce of Charleston, S. C. '
! j The level of the roadway is to be
! three feet above the high water mdrk
?1 of the 1916 flood. Some of the eonf
crete has been laid under 28 feet of
, water, and concrete construction has
, j been greatly delayed by high water
? since early in February.
? For bringing in material the Rollin
f Corporation laid five miles of stand:
ard gauge railroad from St. Stephens,
. | on the Atlantic Coast Line, alongside
a country highway to the edge of
, the swamp.
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?i J. L. Parker, special bridge engir
neer, state highway department, is
5 i the designer and in charge of the
. construction. W. C. Roberts is the
>' resident engineer, and J. W. Williams
j is the assistant.
1 j The total cost will be about $850,t
j 000. Funds are provided by the San
{tee Bridge District, composed of the
: counties of Charleston, Williamsburg
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and Berkeley, and (one half) by the V
Federal Government. Williamsburg 1
is to pay $60,000, Berkeley $40,000, /J
and Charleston the balance. J
This work is one of the largest ^ W
bridge projects in the Southern States. 1
It will be an important link in the 1
projected Atlantic Coastal Highway,
and will fill a long felt want in South
Carolina.
Views of the draw span and one
of the concrete approach trestles are
shown in this issue of the bulletin.
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Gambling in Charleston.
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"We view with alarm the great %
wave of gambling which is sweeping
over the city and the growing tendency
of our young people to indulge ,
in these games," say resolutions ? *
adnnfpH hv the Rutledce Avenue *
Baptist church of Charleston, it was ^
announced by the church clerk. The
resolutions say that "we respectfullly '
petition the honorable mayor and
board of alderman that they give
orders for the suppression of gambling"
and that "we earnestly ask
every one who places character above
coin that they cooperate with us in
our effort to rid our city of this
great evil and thereby protect our
young people."
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