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Our Projects and the Environment
Historic Bridge Survey
The New Jersey Department of Transportation, using the services of a consultant, surveyed all bridges built before 1947 to assess their
eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historical Places. The survey was mandated by the 1987 Surface Transportation and Uniform
Relocation Assistance Act.
Historic contexts had to be developed for the survey. Then, using the National Bridge Inspection Standards' definition of a bridge as a structure
at least 20 feet long, the consultant collected data on 2,064 bridges in New Jersey and recommended eligibility for approximately 250.
Staff from the NJDOT's Environmental Services and the Federal Highway Administration's New Jersey Division Office reviewed these recommendations.
The New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office also commented on the survey.
Survey Specifics
This file includes extensive text from the consultant's survey report. It includes: the methodology used, the historic development of New
Jersey's transportation networks and bridge building techniques, a definition of bridge types used in the survey, each county's transportation
history, a general bibliography and a county-specific bibliography.
Executive Summary and Data Fields
This section includes an Executive Summary of the survey and explanations of the structure and information for each survey data form field.
The files listed below are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the files which is available at our
state Adobe Acrobat Access.
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