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BEAVER -- The Little Golden Gate Bridge on Arkansas 187 over the White River is scheduled to reopen by 5 p.m. Thursday after crews have completed the retrofit project that began Sept. 2. The Little Golden Gate Bridge had required intermittent closures since early September to allow crews to perform a planned retrofit of the stringers on the bridge. No additional closures are scheduled at this time. The bridge was closed Aug. 6-14 after a routine inspection revealed structural deficiencies in one of the two primary steel girders, according to an earlier news release. Also known as the Beaver Bridge in the town of Beaver the bridge is a historic, one-lane suspension bridge carrying Arkansas 187 over the White River at Table Rock Lake. Built in 1949 by the Pioneer Construction Co., the structure is the only suspension bridge open to traffic in Arkansas. The only road running through Beaver is Arkansas 187, and the bridge is the only way to pass through the town and over the White River by road. According to the highway department, about 710 vehicles per day travel Arkansas 187 about 3 miles west of Beaver. There is no traffic counter near the Beaver Bridge.
