Temporary bridge rapidly being built over gap in Orr Springs Rd.

Update: as of the afternoon of March 10, the road is now open!

MENDOCINO Co., 3/9/2017 — On the morning of March 8, a spring day that was still chilly in the shadow of a thickly wooded mountain, a crew of county and private workers was straining on giant wrenches as they assembled a Bailey Bridge over the sinkhole on Orr Springs Road, about five miles west of Ukiah. The Mendocino County Department of Transportation and Green Right O’ Way Constructors, a private contractor out of Willits, were working on putting up the second tier of five-foot high trusses on the sides of the bridge on Wednesday morning. When it is finished, the bridge will span 150 feet, with approximately 50 feet on resting on the remaining portions of road on either side of the chasm.