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A worker helps tie the concrete deck panels into place.
Vantage Bridge is the only crossing point on the Columbia River in the area and is part of I-90, a critical corridor linking the east to west sides of the state.
Travelers journeying across the Columbia River in central Washington are being asked to pack along some patience as crews with Garco Construction continue work on the $79 million rehabilitation project of the Interstate 90 Vantage Bridge. The bridge, built in 1962, last underwent significant repair in 1982. Construction Equipment Guide learned from the
By Lori Tobias
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) that in recent years the bridge required emergency repairs and lane closures after workers discovered over a “dozen through-deck holes, resulting in over a half a million dollars in repairs.” Work on the steel cantilever bridge, about 2,504 ft. long, began in 2024. “The brick on the deck was just old and in need of reha-
bilitation, and we decided that just replacing it would be the most cost-effective and provide the most life out of a new deck,” Preston Beckstead, a WSDOT assistant engineer, told Construction Equipment Guide. “There’s also some pier repair on concrete that has been cracked, and they’re just going to tip that out and put new material in to give that a kind of new life.” see VANTAGE page 8