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Article: Minnesota bridge closed
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2008
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A bridge over the Mississippi River
northwest of the Twin Cities was shut down Thursday because of
problems found in the same sort of steel plates said to have played
a key role in last summer's deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis.
Inspectors found slight bowing in four gusset plates, which help
connect the girders of the Highway 23 bridge at St. Cloud.
Transportation officials said a visual inspection showed the plates
had "distorted" by about a quarter-inch.
State bridge engineer Dan Dorgan said the August collapse of the
Interstate 35W bridge, which killed 13 people, entered into
Thursday's decision to close the Highway 23 bridge, also known as