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Contractor builds span over Tinkers Creek in northern Cuyahoga Valley park
By Bob Downing Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Friday, Aug 10, 2007
A contractor has completed a new trail bridge in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
The bridge carries the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail over Tinkers Creek in Valley View in the northern part of the park.
EnviroCom Construction of Beachwood removed the old crumbling Tinkers Creek Aqueduct and temporary piping and installed new piping to carry Tinkers Creek under the structure and prevent flooding on Canal Road.
Completion of the work permitted park officials to again add water to the old canal.
That work cost about $550,000, park spokeswoman Lisa Petit said.
The bridge was attached to the deteriorating aqueduct.
In 2000, park officials had determined that the aqueduct had critically deteriorated and was no longer safe.
In 2002, trail traffic was routed onto a portion of the Cuyahoga County bridge for vehicles over Tinkers Creek.
The next phase of the project calls for removing the temporary water conveyance system, repairing the historic sandstone foundations and constructing an aqueduct that will again carry the canal over Tinkers Creek.
That project is in design and the park service is seeking funding for construction. It will probably cost about $1 million, Petit said.
The 90-foot-long aqueduct off Canal Road was built in 1915. It was the third aqueduct at that site.
The aqueduct is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was one of four in the Cuyahoga Valley.
The only other surviving aqueduct is on Mill Creek in Garfield Heights
Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.
A contractor has completed a new trail bridge in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
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