Local bridges earn state deficiency rating

Nine Whitman County bridges were rated as structurally deficient in a Washington State Department of Transportation report released in January. Colfax City Administrator Michael Rizzitiello believes there should have been more than that.

“There is actually more of them that are in bad condition,” he said, specifically noting the south Main Street bridge on Highway 195 at Cooper Street and the narrow Highway 26 bridge across the Palouse River west of the waste water facility.

Rizzitiello said the south Main bridge near Cooper Street was at one time slated for replacement.

He noted the 195 bridg...