The Jemseg River is a short river in the Canadian province of New Brunswick which drains Grand Lake into the Saint John River .
5-664: The Jemseg River Bridge is the name for two different structures currently crossing the Jemseg River in Jemseg , New Brunswick , Canada . The current Jemseg River Bridge is a 950 m (3,120 ft) haunched girder bridge which opened in October 2002 and carries the four-lane Route 2 ( Trans-Canada Highway ) on a much broader span with considerably less approaching grade from the west. The former Jemseg River Bridge, located approximately 100 m (330 ft) downstream from
10-701: A savannah -type environment and is augmented by the Grand Lake Meadows. The river is relatively deep, and its main channel hosted regular tug-barge traffic until the late 1990s, the last commercial shipping on the Saint John River system. The river begins at the southern end of Grand Lake at the community of Jemseg , where it is bridged by Route 2 , the Trans-Canada Highway , using the new Jemseg River High Level Crossing twin bridges which opened in October 2002. These supplanted
15-563: A modern concrete bridge). The abutments from the original 1919 Jemseg Bridge can still be found approximately under the current Jemseg River Bridge and immediately adjacent to the Jemseg River. This article about a specific bridge in New Brunswick is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jemseg River The river is fairly slow-flowing, with approximately 5 kilometres of meander length. It passes through
20-522: The current bridge, was constructed in 1960 and carried the two-lane Route 2; it was closed in May 2015 due to safety concerns and the end spans were dismantled in 2016. The original Jemseg River Bridge was built in 1919 as a 3 span steel truss bridge, including a swing span. When dismantled in 1965, one half of the swing span was moved on Penniac Road (the Penniac Road Bridge was rebuilt in 2018 as
25-474: The original 1960s-era Jemseg River Bridge, which carried the Trans-Canada Highway on its original alignment, since renumbered to Route 105 . The river drains into the Saint John River at the community of Lower Jemseg , opposite the village of Arcadia . 45°48′0″N 66°6′0″W / 45.80000°N 66.10000°W / 45.80000; -66.10000 This article related to
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