San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 336
it was necessary to build a roadway,with heavy temporary bridge structuresalong the base of the cliff from the approx-imate location of the Fort Baker militarydock to the north pier site, just west of thelight house at Lime Point. At Fort Point, on the San Francisco sideof the Golden Gate, an 1100… … TH A SINGLE CLEAR SPAN OF 4200 FEET. LONGEST SPAN IN THE WORLD this point is solid rock, scoured by swifttides, requiring that each pile bent be sunkinto specially blasted holes. Coffer Dam Construction While this work was under way, con-struction of a coffer-dam for the Marin pierwas started. This…
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