“The proposed fixed bridge should provide at least 230 feet of vertical clearance above mean high water,” Coast Guard Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath wrote in a June letter to the transportation ...

N.C. Department of Transportation Division 3 Bridge Program Manager Amanda Glynn explained the vertical clearance over the Intracoastal Waterway channel is 65 feet from mean high water – the U.S ...

Vertical clearance — the space between the water and the bottom of a bridge’s roadway — is one of many factors that will be decided as state officials work with a selected Key Bridge builder.

A new bridge proposed to span the Cape Fear River in Wilmington should include a vertical clearance of at least 135 feet to meet current and future navigation needs, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a ...

Drawbridge-style design has no clearance problems. The study listed the vertical lift bridge and the Double-leaf Dutch Bascule Bridge as both being viable, long-term alternatives.