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- A Stillwater Lift Bridge repair project open house will be held June 21 from 4-7 p.m. at Stillwater City Hall, 216 4th Street N. in Stillwater, MN. Anyone interested is invited to attend and learn more about the Stillwater Lift Bridge repair project.
- Stillwater Lift Bridge resumes normal lift schedule for marine traffic April 25
- Lift Bridge Rehabilitation Overview Material (zip file, 65 MB)
- Project Information - April 2012
- April 2011 Condition Summary for the Lift Bridge
- Minnesota, Wisconsin transportation departments release annual project report for St. Croix River Crossing
- Stillwater Lift Bridge e-mail updates
News
Response to April 17, 2011 History Channel Show
- Stillwater Lift Bridge - April 2011 - (58 KB, PDF)
- Bridge Health Monitoring - April 2011 - (40 KB, PDF)
Lift Bridge Management Plan
The Lift Bridge Management Plan and Repair Project is a key
stipulation in the 2006 Amended Section 106 Memorandum
of Agreement (MOA - Stipulation III) for the St.
Croix River Crossing Project. And the Lift
Bridge is one of 24 bridges identified by Mn/DOT for long-term preservation
as part of Mn/DOT’s statewide June 2006 Historic Bridges Management
Plan.
The Lift Bridge is also considered a 4(f) resource and its use as part
of the Loop Trail has been documented during the St. Croix River Crossing
Project in Letters
of Agreements between Mn/DOT and the City of Stillwater.
The Stillwater River Crossing Project also documented the imposed landscaping
and the amenities in the Visual
Quality Manual. The Lift Bridge’s recommendations can be found
in Chapter
7.
To implement these, Mn/DOT’s Bridge Office, Cultural Resources Unit,
a consultant team and Stillwater Lift Bridge Advisory Committee has
completed a condition assessment and a bridge operations and maintenance
manual for the historic Stillwater Lift Bridge and it’s concourse. An
approved Operations and Maintenance Manual has been used to develop
the Stillwater Lift Bridge Management Plan.
The Stillwater Lift Bridge Management Plan describes
how the Stillwater Lift Bridge is to be managed during its interim vehicular
use and after its conversion to pedestrian/bicycle use. It also
establishes the priorities for a repair project in order to allow the Stillwater
Lift Bridge to function with the proposed Loop Trail.
Lift
Bridge Management Plan - March 2009 - (8,296 kb PDF)
Timing of Lift Bridge Repair/Conversion Project:
As part of the MOA and Statewide Historic Bridge Management Plan, Mn/DOT commits to completing a rehabilitation project for the Stillwater Lift Bridge, within one year after opening of the new bridge as described in the 2006 Supplemental Final EIS for the St. Croix River Crossing Project. Mn/DOT & WisDOT will cover the cost of Lift Bridge conversion up to $7 million.
Lift Bridge Endowment Account
The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the St. Croix River Crossing Project contained a series of stipulations on the Lift Bridge, including establishing an endowment account to cover the routine operations and maintenance costs after the Lift Bridge is a bicycle/pedestrian facility, following construction of the new river crossing.
The 2009 Minnesota Legislature established the Lift
Bridge Endowment Account as M.S. 165.15. As required by M.S. 165.15, the 2011 Stillwater Lift Bridge Endowment Account Annual Report has been issued.