Reconnecting People and a Wildlife Refuge Through the Innovative use of an Acrow Truss System Reusable steel systems provide support during the dismantling and rehabilitation phase of the Old Cedar Avenue Bridge in the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. The Old Cedar Avenue Bridge (also called the Long Meadow Bridge), built in 1920, spans a narrow section of Long Meadow Lake in Bloomington, Minnesota and the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. At the time of its construction, the structure was the longest steel highway bridge with concrete flooring in the state. Because of its unusual design and structure the bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. Despite periodic repairs, however, the condition of the bridge deteriorated and it wa

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