Great Dismal Swamp Canal pedestrian bridge reopens

Norfolk District Public Affairs
Published March 20, 2014
On Feb. 27, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources closed the Great Dismal Swamp Canal pedestrian bridge, which crosses onto the Dismal Swamp Canal between North Carolina and Virginia, to 
allow their maintenance crew to repair cylinders in a hydraulic arm weld, which had broken from the bridge’s bascule.

On Feb. 27, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources closed the Great Dismal Swamp Canal pedestrian bridge, which crosses onto the Dismal Swamp Canal between North Carolina and Virginia, to allow their maintenance crew to repair cylinders in a hydraulic arm weld, which had broken from the bridge’s bascule.

SOUTH MILLS, N.C. – The Great Dismal Swamp Canal pedestrian bridge reopened at 5 p.m., March 19, after a two-week closure to repair cylinders in a hydraulic arm weld, which had broken from the bridge’s bascule.

On Feb. 27, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources closed the pedestrian bridge, which crosses onto the Dismal Swamp Canal between North Carolina and Virginia.

“I thank the community for their patience as our maintenance crew worked around several days of adverse weather,” said Joy Greenwood, North Carolina’s Merchants Millpond State Park superintendent.