The two-lane Mississippi bridge that spans the Ross Barnett Reservoir and connects Rankin County to Madison County is now open after construction crews repaired a void under the bridge.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation inspected the bridge in July and found a void, or a large empty hole, under the part of the bridge that connects to the main road on Mississippi Route 43 in Goshen Springs.
In mid-July, the agency gave an estimated timeline of two months for crews to finish the job. They completed their work in two weeks, MDOT announced in a Monday Facebook post…