ELKHURST

Extensive repairs were made to the structure in 1941. The timber floor was replaced, the original timber towers were replaced with the current steel towers and there was improvement to the cable anchorages at the abutments. In 1984, extensive repairs were made including installing new steel stringers to replace the wooden ones and new wood floor beams and new timber deck and wheel guards. Some hanger clamps were repaired and lubricant was applied to the main suspension cables as well as repairing one of the towers and the saddle blocks if each tower. Supplemental cables were added at the anchorages and the saddle blocks of each tower in 1985. In September of 1993 some vertical suspender members were replaced and in 1998 some repairs were made to the towers and some additional vertical suspender members were replaced.