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Thursday, September 4, 1986, p. 7
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Milanville Bridge workers from B&B Welding of Williamsport, PA are in the process of removing a pin which connects two bridge 'members'. They were supervised in the project by PennDOT engineers.
Bridge pins removed
By TOM RUE

SKINNERS FALLS - Workers on the Milanville Bridge, an 84-year-old truss bridge which spans the Upper Delaware near the river's most popular rapids, successfully removed the first of three pins marked for replacement.


PennDOT project inspector Joe Novack displays the first of three pins removed form the span. 'This one wasn't so easy,' commented Novak. 'We hope the others will be easier.'

According to project inspector Joe Novak, the difficulty in taking out the first pin resulted from a mismeasurement of the existing one. The new pin, which workers planned to hammer in as the old one was taken out, was approximately 3/32 of an inch too large and had to be machined down to size, Novak said.

Since the bridge at Skinners Falls is one of four bridges on the Upper Delaware which qualifies for the National Register of Historic Sites, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is attempting to keep its repairs historically accurate.

District bridge engineer Foster Sankey expressed the belief last week that repairs will be completed and the bridge opened within the period required by contract, before the end of October. Sankey's statement was better news for local residents than the message delivered by Arthur Parola, another PennDOT engineer, who earlier told The River Reporter that it was "a distinct possibility" that the bridge might not reopen until sometime next year.

Subcontractor Postupak Painting Co. of Wilkes-Barre now appears to have resumed sandblasting the bridge, which some had feared might be the chief cause of delay. Postupak's operation on the bridge was closed down in June by the Department of Environmental Resources until the company could find a way to keep lead-based paint chips from falling into the Delaware.