Changing the face of Charleston : The unbuilding of the Grace and Pearman Bridges
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January 15, 2006 Filling up a Grace support

Once again, Sparky has saved the day. Work on the Grace has taken an interesting twist. The concrete support column under the Grace cantilever section is hollow and being filled with sand.

The Pearman and Grace worksite

The Grace worksite - just over truss 34, the oval shaped Grace support and a sand pile

As I understand it, this support is hollow so that it is being filled with sand

Beyond this point, all the Grace floor girders have been removed

A view of the sand filling spout

and looking toward Drum Island, only C-1, C-2 and D-23 (at the Drum Island boundary with the Cooper River) remain.

and looking toward Mt. Pleasant - the roots of the Pearman supports

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Attribution: C. Frank Starmer and Sparky Witte from http://oldcooperriverbridge.org