WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH — The N.C. Department of Transportation has crews at work on the South Banks Channel Bridge in Wrighstville Beach through fall 2022.
As such, it forewarns boaters to remain cautious as they steer along the path of the bridge construction. Crews are at work seven days a week, wherein “vertical clearance will be reduced,” the NC DOT stated in a release. It also encourages alternate routes.
The release states the contractor awarded the repairs has put the following safety measures in place:
- Yellow safety ropes have been positioned and flagged on both the south and north outside columns of the bridge to prevent boaters from entering an area with cables for the safe span, which is temporary work platform underneath bridge.
- Cables are being flagged along the safe span, which continues to be built.
- Dawn to dusk hazard lights have been positioned across the bridge to provide nighttime awareness.
- Two construction signs have been placed on both the south and north sides of the bridge alerting boaters of a low clearance and to use an alternate route.
For more information about the bridge construction, catch up on PCD’s previous reporting here.
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