Community efforts building a bridge in Triadelphia
WHEELING – The Long-Term Disaster Recovery Group has spent nearly $50,000 thus far to start the replacement of a new bridge in the Triadelphia area washed out during June 14, 2025 flooding. The bridge served six families in the Springer Addition, who were left without access to U.S. 40. The LTDRG has spent $46,603 so far on the bridge replacement, according to Staci Stephen, executive director of the United Way for the Ohio Valley. But that won’t be all of the cost, she said. “We’ve been renting the equipment to place the beams, and we still have to pay for that,” she said. ...