Bates Bridge Update

With the New Year comes new information on the Bates Bridge project: you can see work in the river everyday – and it’s now 9% complete.

In spite of a cold November & December, crews are working from two barges on the river and have finished installing cofferdams for what will be piers 3 and 4 of the new bridge. Contractor Cianbro has also started installing piling for a retaining wall on the Haverhill side.

With almost all overhead and underground utility relocations completed on the Haverhill side along Groveland Street, Old Ferry Road and Orchard Avenue, the work is going much more slowly on the Groveland side along Main Street. We’ll stay on that.

To see pictures of the construction progress, go to the Groveland/Haverhill Bates Bridge Reconstruction page.