The loading of temporary bridge elements that will replace the bridges destroyed by the flood in Głuchołazy took place near Warsaw, the Ministry of Infrastructure reported on Wednesday evening. As reported, this is the first of the transports to the flooded areas.
“The city's residents will gain a temporary DMS-65 folding bridge, and national road No. 40 will become passable again,” the ministry wrote on platform X.
As added, since yesterday GDDKiA together with the contractor, it is clearing the access road to the bridge. A military convoy of three trailers with heavy equipment for clearing rubble has just arrived in the Opole region, and from Thursday, the army and the contractor will begin work on cleaning the riverbed and removing the old structure.
Work on restoring the crossings over the Biała Głuchołaska River
Earlier on Wednesday, the deputy commander of the 2nd Engineering Regiment in Inowrocław, Lieutenant Colonel Arkadiusz Syrocki, announced that the army had already begun work on restoring the crossings over the Biała Głuchołaska River, where the flood destroyed two bridges.
After the riverbed is cleared, an inventory is to be carried out and it will be checked whether the abutments that survived the flood can be reused. Construction of the bridge is to begin after the structure is delivered from the Government Agency for Strategic Reserves.
The bridges to be built in Głuchołazy will be temporary bridges of the DMS-65 structure, i.e. road folding bridges. They are to ensure two-way traffic. – This was the condition presented by the mayor of Głuchołazy – Syrocki noted and added that on national road no. 40 there is very heavy transit traffic between Poland and Czechs.
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