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TRENTON - The water is fine. It's the bridge that's been troubled.
Over 90 years old, Mercer County Bridge No. 6-140.13, commonly known as the Nottingham Way bridge, had been closed for over two years for repairs.
The span was opened Wednesday with a ribbon cutting by Trenton and Hamilton officials.
In April of 2013, the bridge underwent 15 days of emergency repairs and the weight limit was dropped from 12 tons to 3 tons at a time.
The new weight limit was ignored at least 10 times during two 30-minute observations in a week, according to a letter from Pickering Corts & Summerson, an engineering firm that was following up on the repairs for the county.
That led to it's closure in July 2013.
Officials eventually decided then that the decaying bridge, which Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes called important not only to Hamilton and Trenton, but to the entire region, would be replaced.
The new structure over Assunpink Creek is a single span, steel girder bridge supported on a concrete spread cap on a caisson substructure.
Earle Asphalt of Farmingdale in Monmouth County was the successful low bidder at $2,812,313.13 for the project, which was funded through the New Jersey Department of Transportation Division of Local Aid funds.
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