this old steel plate girder bridge, spanning Sugar Creek, in Caywood Road, Ohio hasn't been used since 1976.
More than 50 percent of steel plate girder railway bridges in North America exceed 100 years of service. This includes more than 14 thousand spans equal to about 145 miles that remain in service. Today some of the oldest bridges are close to 150 years old.
I just remembered... the house built on a bridge to avoid property taxes for the rest of human existance https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/12/ive-posted-about-one-bridge-in-brisbane.html
well nothing . It would depend on whom owned the river etc that goes under it . What state etc laws are in us vs fed laws govering streams and rivers etc.. Eg in BC canada it's a mix of the laws of bc and federal laws. Its such that boats etc on lakes etc come under Fed laws unless the city eg kelowna bc goes through a huge amount of effort . In that case it took about 10 years before the city could do something about boat and float houses on the 30 mile lake. How does that come back to your question ? At least where I live there s nothing stopping you putting something on eg the pier in the Thompson river in kamloops bc . The river bed and the remains of 4 piers of bridge that are there aren't under the city control . Kamloops is a city of 100 000 people .
ReplyDeletethen, it would be a great camping spot, right? No fee, no govt oversight
DeleteI never thought of who claims to own the river or lake... dang, I guess that's a thing that possibly never comes up. I suppose most are state, unless it's an international waterway maybe.
DeleteFloat houses on a lake, a really peaceful life. Only problem is sewage. Most boat owners, in my life experience of living on a 56 Chris Craft Constellation, 46 footer, 3 bedroom, in an anchorage here in San Diego, was that people threw all trash and sewage into the bay, and never took their trash or sewage to the shore facilities
dang... piers on rivers, just have to find abandoned ones from businesses that went out of business, or home owners who defaulted on loans, and abandoned their places
DeleteSeattle used to have a whole bunch of houseboats. They did just dump the poo into Lake Washington and the connecting waters. Yuck.
ReplyDeleteNow the ones remaining and new-built are hooked up to sewer lines. They cost much more $$$$$$$$$$$$$!