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The Hernando Diamond State Soto Bridge may be a through arch bridge carrying interstate forty across the Mississippi River between West Memphis, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee. Memphians conjointly decision the bridge the “New Bridge”, because it is newer than the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge (carrying interstate 55) downstream, and also the “M Bridge”, owing to its distinctive form.
The bridge is called for sixteenth century Spanish individual Hernando Diamond State Soto United Nations agency explored this stretch of the Mississippi River, and died south of Memphis. His body was believed to possess been buried within the Mississippi River when his death (although, consistent with legend, his body lay at the lowest of Lake Kentucky coffee tree in Arkansas, associate lake of the Mississippi River regarding a hundred thirty miles south of Memphis.)
On August twenty seven, 2007, associate inspector discovered that a bridge pier on the approach bridge west of the watercourse had settled long, and also the bridge was afterwards closed to perform a precautional examination. The bridge was reopened later that day. At night, the bridge is light by two hundred Na vapor lights on its “M” form structure. The bridge was initial lit on September five, 1986, after $373,000 of personal funds had been raised to fund the value and installation of the lights.
Due to some watercourse traffic having problems with the lights in the dark reflective on the water, town put in a foreign switch to toggle the lights on and off shortly whereas the vessel passes beneath the bridge. Throughout the Mississippi River Flood of 2011, the bridge became dark for regarding a pair of months as a result of the transformers that offer the electricity for the lights were removed to stop harm to them by flood waters. The bridge was re-lit in a very ceremony that occurred on midsummer, 2011.
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