Mosquito Road near the Mosquito Bridge, northeast of Placerville in El Dorado County, is closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic because of large hole in the roadway, the California Highway Patrol\u2019s Placerville Office reports.<\/p>\n
Road closed until further notice.<\/p>\n
Bridge\u00a0Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n Overview<\/p>\n Suspension bridge over South Fork American River on Mosquito Road<\/p>\n Location<\/p>\n El Dorado County<\/a>,\u00a0California<\/a><\/p>\n Status<\/p>\n Closed to traffic<\/p>\n Future prospects<\/p>\n Slated for repairs, replacement study being done.<\/p>\n History<\/p>\n Built 1939<\/p>\n Design<\/p>\n Towerless wire suspension<\/p>\n Dimensions<\/p>\n Length of largest span: 201.1 ft. Approximate latitude, longitude<\/p>\n +38.77611,\u00a0-120.74861\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(decimal degrees) Approximate UTM coordinates<\/p>\n 10\/695575\/4294339\u00a0(zone\/easting\/northing)<\/p>\n Quadrangle map:<\/p>\n Slate Mountain<\/a><\/p>\n Inventory numbers<\/p>\n CA 25C-61\u00a0(California bridge number) Inspection\u00a0(as of 07\/2014)<\/p>\n Deck condition rating:\u00a0Very Good\u00a0(8 out of 9) Average daily traffic\u00a0(as of 2012)<\/p>\n 1,055<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mosquito Road near the Mosquito Bridge, northeast of Placerville in El Dorado County, is closed to vehicle and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"Government<\/a>","tag_info":"Government","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTotal length: 245.1 ft.
\nDeck width: 8.9 ft.
\nVertical clearance above deck: 13.1 ft.<\/p>\n
\n38\u00b046’34” N, 120\u00b044’55” W \u00a0\u00a0(degrees\u00b0minutes’seconds”)<\/p>\n
\nBH 10869\u00a0(Bridgehunter.com ID)<\/p>\n
\nSuperstructure condition rating:\u00a0Good\u00a0(7 out of 9)
\nSubstructure condition rating:\u00a0Very Good\u00a0(8 out of 9)
\nAppraisal:\u00a0Structurally deficient
\nSufficiency rating: 13.3\u00a0(out of 100)<\/p>\n