Thanks again everyone for signing the petition to save the Powder Point Bridge in Duxbury, MA. Today, we would like to ask the community for help with the following:
- A call for historical experts to help us with the Section 106 filing asking for historical status for the bridge
- Attend the Duxbury Selectboard meeting, in person or on Zoom, on Monday, October 20, to tell them to ask for a PAUSE in the Powder Point Bridge Replacement Project.
A Call for Historical Experts
Please contact us at info@saveourbridge.us if you have any of the following qualifications and are willing to help us with our Section 106 filing -- that's the document we have to file requesting historical status for the Powder Point Bridge.
I was told to ask petition-signers to reach out to their networks & ask for Teams/zoom call input from people with knowledge in:
- bridge capacity standards and stabilization methods
- MEPA/Sec. 106 reviews
- Nat’l Register criteria
- Nat’l Register's 7 Aspects of Integrity analysis
If you can help us with any of that, please reach out to us at info@saveourbridge.us or reach out to me on Facebook.
Selectboard Meeting, Monday, October 20 at 6:30 pm in the Mural Room in the basement of Duxbury Town Hall or via Zoom.
The Duxbury Selectboard will be meeting tomorrow, Monday, October 20 at 6:30 p.m. We ask people to attend in person or via Zoom to ask the Selectboard to PAUSE the Powder Point Bridge Replacement Project.
During the Open Forum at the beginning of the meeting, we intend to have people stand up and explain in a sentence or two why we want to PAUSE the project.
The key issue is that our community has not had time to consider alternatives or whether we even want this project. A pause will allow us to make better decisions and to find a way to restore the bridge rather than destroy it. No one, however, makes good decisions when they are in a rush.
Please think of a question that you think has not been answered properly. The most obvious is why are we spending $172 million for a replacement bridge that no one wants when we could repair the bridge for so much less.
Later in the meeting, the town plans to present information on the condition of the bridge. Here our main concern is that the town's and MassDOT's bridge engineers, although very highly qualified in steel and concrete bridges, are not experts in wood bridges.
We are going to ask for a second opinion from an expert in wood bridges. Please join us for that as well.