A few years ago, new and young visitors to the park would have no idea that a magnificent miniature bridge crossed a spring run to the Little Lehigh. Certainly, such a stone construction wasn't necessary to cross the 24 inch waterway. It was built in a era of masonry art, fueled by the Great Depression, and funded by Roosevelt's WPA. Over the last decade, budgetary cutbacks and environmentalists demanding riparian zones, justified allowing it to be consumed by brush and saplings. In 2010, I persuaded Mike Gilbert, park department manager, to partially clear around the bridge. Although a tree now blocks it's southern approach, the bridge has been given a reprieve on it's destruction.
reprinted from previous years
We drove over the Ott Street bridge a couple of days ago.
ReplyDeleteLooking down at the Parks from both sides, it's pathetic how these, wild overgrown, riparian zones make this beautiful area look..Keep up the good awareness reporting, and work, Michael .....PJF