The two pedestrian bridges in Salisbury City Park could be closed for the rest of the summer.
Teresa Gardner, director of Public Works, said city inspectors have found significant signs of deterioration on the Snow Hill Road pedestrian bridge during an inspection this month.
The Salisbury Daily Timesreports the inspectors said they found the wood had warped and shrunk.
In addition, they said the screws that hold them together had rusted apart allowing the planks to be removed by hand.
Gardner also said that support beams had rusted to the point…that they had lost 30 percent of their thickness.
He said that Public Works had begun an in-house inspection of other bridges in the park where similar problems were found on the small bridge leading to Picnic Island from South Park Drive.
The small bridge was also closed while the consulting firm GMB carried out an evaluation
