The objective of the project is to repair a severely deteriorated roadway structure and drainage system, and to to create a safe and attractive road that can handle many modes of travel, from automobiles to bicycles to mass transit to pedestrians and carriage rides.  The complete reconstruction project offers the opportunity to significantly improve the quality of water that drains from Beach Road and West Brook to Lake George.  The existing four lanes of roadway will be replaced with a porous asphalt pavement system designed to collect, store, and infiltrate more than 4” of stormwater in a 24 hour period.   This porous pavement system is the first roadway of its kind being constructed in NY State.

The existing Water Street structure was a three-span, multiple timber girder superstructure with a timber deck supported by pile and lagging abutments.  The steel pile piers were deteriorated and the abutments began to lean toward the creek. The project replaced the three-span structure with a single span structure and eliminate the piers in Ganargua Creek.  Design features for this replacement included design survey and mapping (including stream cross sections), development of a design report, a Phase I archeological survey, compliance with environmental guidelines and regulations, and participation in public meetings. The replacement structure included the single-span, multiple steel girder superstructure constructed integrally with the cast-in-place concrete substructure. The substructure concrete was constructed with a simulated stone masonry facing to maintain the aesthetic of the surrounding area. The structure was also supported on steel H-piles. An existing forced sanitary sewer main was relocated onto the new bridge as part of this project.