Popular walking bridge in Blackfoot reopens after repairs 

BLACKFOOT — The Jensen Grove stepping span is now unfastened for nan nationalist aft it closed down 2 months ago.

The metropolis of Blackfoot announced nan span opened connected Monday, June 10. 

A societal media post from nan metropolis said nan actual spalling and deterioration person been repaired, and nan handrails person been reattached to nan recently strengthened actual structure. 

“The span should beryllium capable to beryllium enjoyed by nan organization for galore years to come!” nan station said. 

Background

The span was primitively closed connected April 2 aft a caller engineering inspection. Mayor Marc Carroll had said it was owed to immoderate visible deterioration successful nan concrete. 

RELATED | Blackfoot closes stepping span successful city’s largest parkland retired of ‘an abundance of caution’

He said successful summation to nan deterioration connected nan edges of nan bridge, location was besides 3 places wherever metallic brackets had fallen retired and into nan water. 

“You don’t consciousness immoderate benignant of shaking, you don’t get immoderate benignant of consciousness of instability,” Carroll said successful a previous interview. “We closed it done an abundance of caution.”

“The span was constructed astir 2000 and has served nan stepping organization very well,” a news merchandise from nan metropolis said.