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Sunset At Columbia River Gorge

Vibrant colorful sunrise over Mt Hood, Oregon, and the Columbia River, from Vancouver Washington

An arial view looking North of Interstate 205 Glenn Jackson Bridge and War Vetrans Memorial Freeway spanning the Columbia River and linking Oregon and Washington in the Pacific Northwest. Washington at top with Oregon at bottom of photo.

Wind Turbines at Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Columbia River on the Washington State side

Sunrise Over Vista House on Crown Point at Columbia River Gorge in Oregon with Beacon Rock in Washington State

Portland Oregon

A group of fishermen in boats, salmon fishing on the Columbia River, at sunset.

Fisherman with a big white sturgeon in the Pacific Northwest

Sunrise view from crown point

A railroad track next to a highway road with lane dividing opposite traffic runs along the scenic Columbia River bank with green trees and rocky mountains in Columbia Gorge area

Sunset over the cliff with the Vista house and the Columbia river near Portland, Oregon

Tri-Cities Washington viewed elevated vantage point with wind turbines in foreground

Purple lupine and golden balsamroot wildflowers in the low morning sunshine of a Columbia Gorge Sunrise. High resolution color photograph taken on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, looking toward Washington state, across the Columbia River. No people in image. Horizontal composition.

3D Render of a Topographic Map of Portland, Oregon, USA.

Water rushing alongside a lock on the Columbia River

Columbia River at Oregon and Washington

The Cable Bridge, officially called the Ed Hendler Bridge and sometimes called the Intercity Bridge, spans the Columbia River between Pasco and Kennewick in southeastern Washington as State Route 397. It was constructed in 1978 and replaced the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge, an earlier span built in 1922 and demolished in 1990.

The bridge is one of seven major bridge structures in the Tri-Cities area. The Blue Bridge (another Pasco/Kennewick bridge), the Interstate 182 Bridge that connects Pasco with Richland, the U.S. Highway 12 bridge over the Snake River (Pasco/Burbank), and three railroad bridges are the others.

It was dedicated on September 8, 1978, and was the first major cable-stayed bridge to be built in the United States (and second-longest of its kind in the world at the time).[4][5] It was constructed almost entirely of prestressed concrete, beginning with the towers and followed by the bridge deck, which was cast in individual segments, raised up and secured to each other.

The bridge was named after Ed Hendler, a Pasco, Washington insurance salesman, as well as the city's former mayor, who headed up the committee responsible for obtaining the funding for construction of the bridge. Hendler died in August 2001.

A controversial feature of the bridge was added in 1998, when lights were added to illuminate the bridge at night. Many thought this was unnecessary and a waste of both electricity and money. During a power crisis in 2000, the lights were turned off, but they were turned on for one night to honor Hendler's passing. Now the lights are turned on at night, and turned off at 2 am.

In March 2007, the old guard rail system on the bridge, which consisted of steel cables, was replaced with a more rigid system, consisting of steel rails bolted to the original system's mounts on the bridge deck.

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