Part of a decommissioned rail line parallel to the Pelican Island Causeway Bridge collapsed on a barge that struck it.
Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
The Texas Dept. of Transportation is examining the Pelican Island Causeway Bridge over the Galveston Channel after a barge allided with it. TxDOT had currently been preparation to change the bridge before the event.
An effort led by the U.S. Coast Guard is likewise cleansing an approximated 1,000 – 2,000 gallons of vacuum gas oil that spilled from the barge in the occurrence.
The 3,239-ft-long bascule bridge was developed in 1960 and is the just crossing to Pelican Island, which sits north of Galveston in Galveston Bay. At about 10 a.m. May 15, the barge MMLP 321, which is owned by Martin Marine, broke loose due to a coupling problem and clashed with part of the bridge. That strike triggered concrete from a parallel decommissioned rail line—which no longer covered the complete channel even inthepast the event—to collapse onto the barge and harmed a tank including about 160,000 gallons of fuel, according to authorities with a combined command formed to address the circumstance.
There were no injuries.
The bridge is periodically open to lorry and pedestrian traffic leaving the island as authorities from TxDOT and Galveston County Navigation District 1 evaluate its condition.
“At this point we’ve considered it’s OKAY for pedestrian traffic, however till we relocation the barge we can’t do a complete dive assessme