Debris from the Great Flood of 2015 put such pressure on the U.S. Highway 176 bridge over Cannon’s Creek in Newberry County that floodwaters washed it away. Officials are scrambling to replace the bridge, built near Pomaria in 1949, but that may take six months.
As senior editor Bill Davis outlines in this news story, legislators are under increasing pressure to find major fixes for deficient bridges and roads which needed up to $40 billion of work before the flood. More than 250 roads and bridges remain closed in the state because of historic rains. Photo by Matt Silveston, Charleston.
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