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Since its completion in 1957, the current renovation of the Heide Trask Drawbridge is the most comprehensive in the bascule bridge’s 56 years of service. With the overhaul of the bridge’s mechanical components, electrical system, control system, bridge tender house and the first replacement of the steel grid, North Carolina Department of Transportation Division 3 bridge program manager Amanda Glynn said the project would greatly extend the structure’s life.

“Technology is getting better and, with the project we are doing right now, we are truly getting almost a brand new bridge,” Glynn said. “We will get another 30-40 years out of this system we are installing now.”

However,Our full range of portable ultrasonic Flaw Detector (UT) provides unmatched capabilities for locating discontinuities and other flaws. the question of what will happen at the end of those 30-40 years is what retired engineer and Wrightsville Beach resident Harold King requested officials from the town of Wrightsville Beach begin discussing with NCDOT. Per the request of Mayor Pro Tem Bill Sisson, King’s letter to the town was included for discussion on the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen’s agenda on Feb. 14.

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For King,A Stone tools is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures still exist today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric, particularly Stone Age cultures that have become extinct. one solution would see NCDOT consider another bridge onto the island to guard against a crisis if something were to happen to the drawbridge.

“If that bridge did not work for some lengthy period of time … past a few days, it would kill the business community on the beach,” King said. “I think, personally, we are years past asking DOT to begin looking at this.”

Glynn said adding another crossing could be a possibility in the future, but that it would be difficult to secure the rights of way necessary considering the amount of development on Wrightsville Beach and in Wrightsville Sound. To her knowledge, Glynn said there have been no discussions within the NCDOT about such a project or the replacement of the Heide Trask Drawbridge.