In last week's Kennett Paper you may have read a story about the three county covered bridges that are going to be repaired: Speakman Covered Bridge #1, which spans the Doe Run between West Marlborough and East Fallowfield townships; Rapps Dam in East Pikeland; and Knox in Valley Forge National Historic Park. West Marlborough resident Mark Myers has been the township's representative to the meetings involving the Speakman bridge repair, and he gave the township supervisors an update at their June meeting.
Mark said the contractor that has been hired, Eastern Highway Specialists of Wilmington, has experience working on covered bridges, including the Ashland bridge in Hockessin. The Speakman bridge will be the largest project of the three, and completion is set for September 2016.
" I think we're going to end up with a very satisfactory result," Mark said. He recommended that West Marlborough and East Fallowfield work together to come up with a way to protect the bridge, which has been closed to traffic since it was seriously damaged by an oversized truck seven years ago.
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