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Table 3.4 Historic failures due to fl ood scour.
U.S. Bridges Location Year Details of Failure
Interstate 29 West Bridge Sioux City, IA 1962 Natural hazard (fl ooding scour)

Bridge near Charleston, SC Cooper River, SC 1965 Natural hazard (fl ooding scour), pier failure
Interstate 17 Bridge Black Canyon, AZ 1978 Natural hazard (fl ooding scour)

Schoharie Creek Bridge Near Fort Hunter, NY 1987 Flooding and storm led to collapse of two spans after
scouring of a pier.
Twin I-5 Bridges Coalinga, CA 1995 Scour of bridge foundations
(Arroyo Pasajero River)
Tennessee River Bridge Clifton, TN 1995 Scour
Walnut Street Bridge Harrisburg, PA 1996 Scour and ice damage
(Susquehanna River)
Hatchie River Bridge Near Covington, TN 1999 Scouring and undermining of the foundations

Interstate 20 bridge on Near Pecos, TX 2004 Scour from fl oodwaters after two days of heavy rain
Salt Draw River
Lee Roy Selmon Expressway Tampa Bay, FL 2004 Scour hole developed under a concrete pier causing bridge
to drop.
Rural Bridge (Beaver Dam Creek) Near Shelby, NC 2004 Natural hazard (fl ooding scour) causing bridge washout

Canadian Bridges

Bridge over a river British Columbia 1981 Flood scour and tree debris in water destroy bridge.
German Bridges

Bridges over Weser River Bremen 1947 Flooding, fl oating ice, and ships led to the collapse of
the bridges.
Bridge over Mosel River Near Koblenz 1947 Flooding and fl oating ice led to collapse of the bridge.

Esslingen Bridge Esslingen 1969 Water entering sheet pile wall caisson and fl ooding during
construction
Bridges in Germany South and East 2002 Extensive fl ooding in South and East Germany due to scour
Germany

British Bridges
Drimsallie Bridge Inverness, Scotland 1973 One span of bridge collapsed due to washout of abutment
in fl ood—foundation scour

Glanrhyd Railway Bridge over Near Llandeilo, Wales 1987 Flooding, bridge collapsed as a train drove over it—
River Towy fl ood scour.
Multispan masonry arch Inverness, Scotland 1989 Heavy fl oods washed multispan masonry arch bridge away,
Ness viaduct just after a freight train had passed over it—fl ood scour
Five-span bridge at Forteviot, 10 km south of Perth, 1993 Flooding, erosion of the gravel bed beneath the
(May River) Scotland downstream face of the shallow founded pier, concrete bag
scour protection washed away—fl ood scour.