The Mississippi River Bridge at Lansing, also known as the Black Hawk Bridge, is an iconic structure that has been serving Iowa and Wisconsin since 1931, except between 1945 and 1957, when damage from ice dams forced it to close.
The more than 1,700-foot bridge connects Iowa Highway 9 in Lansing, Iowa, to Wisconsin Highway 82 in rural Crawford County, Wisconsin, and in recent years, officials in Iowa and Wisconsin announced the bridge would be replaced for several reasons, including its structural condition, safety, geometry, which makes it difficult for truck traffic, and more.
A replacement bridge has been under construction alongside the existing bridge, and now the time has come for the implosion of the existing bridge, along with the removal of its main section, to allow the construction of the new bridge to proceed safely and open as planned in 2027…