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Bridge Relocation Project to Change Posted 21 July 2008 Complications have emerged in the local plan to move three historic bridges in Winneshiek County to the Trout Run Recreation Trail.   The State Historical Society awarded a $100,000 grant to Winneshiek County to help with the relocation project.   The original plan included the Turkey River Bow String Bridge and the Gilliece Bow String Bridge on Cattle Creek Road to be lifted by helicopter and taken to the new recreational trail. Recent studies have concluded the bridges will become too heavy to move after they are prepared for the airlift. Winneshiek County Engineer Lee Bjerke announced his department is now studying plans to move the bridges by flatbed trucks. However, even that method might not be possible for the Gilliece Bridge.   Bjerke indicated he will talk with State Historical Society officials to see how much flexibility there is with their grant and whether some or all of the grant will have to be forfeited if the bridges are not airlifted. The third historic bridge, the Ten Mile Bridge, is a truss bridge that county officials had always planned to move by flatbed trucks. Relocation plans for that bridge remain unchanged.

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