From:   Columbia County Department of Public Works – Engineering Division

Re:       Woodward Bridge Closure for Replacement

            County Route 7 over Trib. To Roeliff Jansen Kill, Town of Gallatin

 Date:    May 19, 2022

Please be advised that as a part of the Columbia County Department of Public Works ongoing and perennial efforts to replace and/or rehabilitate it’s population of aging, structurally deficient and/or functionally obsolete public bridge structures, construction of the replacement of our Woodward Bridge, carrying Columbia County Rte. 7 over a tributary to the Roeliff Jansen Kill, is scheduled to begin the first week of June 2022.  Posting of the detour will take place and the bridge is expected to close on or about June 13, 2022 and construction should be complete in early September 2022.  Woodward Bridge is located in the Town of Gallatin, approximately ¼ mile east of the intersection of Co. Rte. 7 and Elsohn Road.

This nearly 70 year-old County bridge has had a problematic reduced load posting of 15 tons for several years, and suffers from numerous steadily deteriorating structural deficiencies, thus is in need of complete replacement.  In order to replace this structure, we will need to close the bridge and Co. Rte. 7 at the bridge approaches, with all Co. Rte. 7 traffic being re-routed temporarily on an off-site detour.  The posted off-site detour will traverse Co. Rte. 7, NYS Rte. 82 and Elsohn Road, and will be utilized for the estimated 4-5 month duration of this bridge replacement project.