1. Lakes Region Planning Commission TAC Meeting
April 6, 2016
Doug Gosling, NHDOT Bridge Maintenance Engineer

2. NHDOT Bureau of Bridge Maintenance

3. What Does Bridge Maintenance Do?
Maintains the 2160 State owned bridges (there are an additional 1687 Town Bridges for a total of 3847 bridges)
FY 2015 Expenditures - $9,787,746 (includes $1,741,704 for Lift Bridge Operations)
Maintains and Operates the States 4 Lift Bridges
12 Repair Crews Including Our Portsmouth Lift Bridge Crew And Our Turnpike Crew
6 or 7 Person Crews
About 200 Bridges per Crew
Capital Program repairs/replaces about 2 bridges per crew

4. Crew Areas

5. Work Effort by Program

6. Bridge Preservation Bridge Cleaning and Sealing
Expansion Joint Repairs

7. Bearing Repairs

8. Invert Maintenance

9. Deck Patching and Membrane

10. Deck Crack Sealing

11. Scour Repairs

12. Bridge Rehabilitation
2015 Removed 10 of 18 Bridges Taken off the Red List

13. Deck Replacements

14. Bridge Rehabilitation

15. Lift Bridge Operations

16. Lift Bridge Operations
- 4 Lift Bridges:
Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, Portsmouth
Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth
Hampton River Bridge
Little Harbor (Wentworth Hotel), Rye-Newcastle
- Portsmouth Bridges are manned 24/7/365
- 21 Full Time Positions and 20+- Part Time Positions

17. Emergency Response
Tropical Storm Irene washed out US302 bridge

18. US 302 reopened in 17 days

19. Special Services
District Repairs

20. State Rail Road Bridges

21. Municipal Bridges
* Phasing This Out

22. Bridge Washing and Sealing

23. Procedure: Sweep the bridge
Clear away any brush or debris around the bridge
Wash the splash zones

25. Finger Joints often need cleaning Annually

26. Sealing

27. With Adequate Funding This Bridge Will be Repaired

28. With Reduced Funding
Weight Limits Restrict: School Buses Oil Trucks Fire Trucks Delivery Trucks