State Announces Funding To Repair Two Bridges In Rockland

ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY — To deal with severe weather and crumbling infrastructure, New York officials have pledged another hefty amount of assistance for local governments to work on some of their most urgent bridge and culvert issues. Grants are going to two projects in Rockland.

The state's BRIDGE NY initiative, which this go-round includes $60.1 million total for the Hudson region, aims to make New York's local communities stronger, its infrastructure more resilient and more equipped to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

It also helps tackle the long list of bridges and culverts in bad shape.

The Rockland projects:

• $928,000 to Rockland County for the rehabilitation of the Pascack Road bridge over Pascack Brook.
• $2.911 million to the Town of Orangetown for the replacement of the Margaret Keahon Drive bridge over Muddy Brook in Pearl River.

One in three bridges in the United States need major repair work or should be replaced, according to the latest report from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, which ranked New York 12th for the percent of structurally deficient bridges.

Rockland was the only New York county outside NYC with any bridges on the annual report's list of 200 Most Traveled U.S. Structurally Deficient Bridges:

• Interstate 87 over Rte 303
• Interstate 87 over Route 59 WB, Rte 59