johnsonbeachbum

Here is your answer:<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">SR 30/US 98<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"> - <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Replacement of the sixty-six year old Bayou Chico Bridge on US 98 is set to begin early January 2009. The project is being constructed by Scott Bridge Company of Opelika, Alabama. Improvements include replacement of the existing dual bridges with a single bridge. The new, wider bridge will be eight-feet higher than the older structure and consist of four 12-foot travel lanes, two 5-foot sidewalks, and two 51/2-foot bicycle lanes. It will also have protective pedestrian walls. Additional work will include reconstruction of the roadway approaches, safety and drainage improvements, construction of a retaining wall and decorative lighting to the bridge. Crews will begin demolition of the old eastbound bridge in January. The westbound bridge will be converted to handle two-way traffic. Construction on the $ 6.4-million project is scheduled to be complete spring 2010.<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Found at this local road construction webpage: http://www.dot.state.fl.us/publicinf.../escambia.shtm

Telum Pisces

They have the signs up this week saying that work will start tomorrow. The infamous orange barrels are out there and it looks like work will get started soon.

thataway

There was work activity in this area today. The bayou is fairly shallow-you would be lucky to find 3 feet all of the way up both sides of the North arm. Both East and West parts of this North arm, are even shoaler. I have a friend who used to take a 28 foot inboard most of the way up on the East Side. Frank Patti had "Patti Cake" up there for awhile (but I/O's). You have to know where the channel is. Also under where the old railroad bridge (between PMSYC and Patti boat yard) has a hard bottom--can be as shoal a 2 feet or less when the water is out. I thought that the clearance was going to be somewhere from 12 to 14 feet when finished.