East Fairfield, June 16, 2009 - East Fairfield's Covered Bridge is back across Black Creek. The Morrisville-based contractors, Blow and Cote have been prefabing parts of the trusses at home base during the off season giving themselves a big jump when on-site on-site operations resumed this spring with the intent to finish work by the 26th of June. At present, installing new standing-seam steel roofing is underway, to be followed by re-siding.

View from the South-west. The roofing scaffolding is in place. Note the renewed camber. Photo by Joe Nelson June 16, 2009

View from upstream. Note the steel brackets attaching the queen posts to the lower chord. They replace a "stirrup-strap" steel-band repair made in the earlier history of repairs made to the bridge. Photo by Joe Nelson June 16, 2009

A close-up of the new queen post to chord connection. The metal squares (4 sets) support new tie-rods. Photo by Joe Nelson June 16, 2009

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