Bridge Facts
The Feds Say
Policy Says
SNBI
Definitions
100

This is the longest structure in Georgia with a structure length of 8,852 feet.

What is the Talmadge Bridge?

100

The Fed's say NSTM Inspections are required on intervals of how many months?

What is 24 months?  Georgia requires every 12 months.

100

Policy says this is when you add a bridge to the dive list.

When a thorough inspection cannot be performed because of excessive water depth?  (4 feet of water is a good reference point, but not set in stone in policy)

100

If the bridge has a rail system is made of guardrail what is the post spacing that determines whether it is coded an I  vs a 0 ?


6'-3"

100

Horizontal parts of a rolled I-shaped beam or of a built-up girder extending transversely across the top and bottom of the web.

Flange

200

This number is closest to the total number of bridges in the United States?

  1. 100,000
  2. 200,000
  3. 300,000
  4. 600,000
  5. 1,200,000

What is 600,000?

200

There are this many metrics we have to pass as a unit.

What is 23?

200

- Have limited or restricted means for entry and exit

- Are large enough for inspectors to enter and perform work

- Are not designed for continuous occupancy

What are confined spaces?

200

If a structure has 5 spans, it should have this many substructure units.

What is 6?

200

The critical links between the superstructure and substructure, these components must be inspected for proper movement.

What is bearings?

300

This bridge collapse in 1967 over the Ohio River led to the creation of the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS) program.

What is the Silver Bridge?

300

You need to have these to prove you looked at the different parts of a structure.

What are photos?

300

This job title has primary responsibility for the underwater bridge inspection program in the State.

Who is the State Bridge Maintenance Engineer?

300

In the SNBI, this is a condition that poses an "imminent threat to public safety" and requires an immediate response and reporting to the FHWA.

What is a "critical finding"?
300

This erosion of the riverbed or streambed around a bridge's foundation is a critical concern for underwater inspectors.

What is scour?

400

According to the InspectX homepage, Georgia has this many structures total?  

(You can be within 10 plus or minus to be correct)

What is 15,454?

400

Established in 1971, these federal standards regulate bridge inspections in the United States.

What are the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS)?

400

The maximum amount of time before you make the call for an "A" priority.

What is 4 hours?

400

This U.S. government agency oversees the SNBI and the collection of bridge data for the National Bridge Inventory.

What is the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)?

400

Performed on a new or rebuilt structure, this inspection establishes baseline condition data.

What is an initial inspection?

500

What bridge has the longest span in the state? not including the Cable Stays.

17TH Street at 338' Structure # 121-5305-0

500

 According to federal standards for highway bridges on public roads, this is the minimum number of months between routine inspections.

What is 24 months?

500

How do we monitor the long-term, natural or human-induced changes in the stream bed's elevation. Degradation (lowering) can be a type of long-term scour, while aggradation (raising) is the opposite process.

Waterway Soundings and analyze in Channel history.

500

The SNBI was incorporated by reference into this set of Federal regulations on June 6, 2022.

What are the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS)?

500

A pair of adjacent surfaces in reinforced concrete where two pours have met.

Construction Joint.

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