The Arboretum Sewer Trestle (also known as Arboretum Aqueduct,
, Individual Landmarks, Department of Neighborhoods, City of Seattle. Accessed online 28 December 2007. Arboretum Aqueduct and Sewer Trestle,
or Wilcox Footbridge
) is a historic multiarched concrete-and-brick
trestle
ATLAS-I (Air Force Weapons Lab Transmission-Line Aircraft Simulator), better known as Trestle, was a unique electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generation and testing apparatus built between 1972 and 1980 during the Cold War at Sandia National Laborato ...
and footbridge
in the
Washington Park Arboretum
Washington Park is a public park in Seattle, Washington, United States, most of which is taken up by the Washington Park Arboretum, a joint project of the University of Washington, the Seattle Parks and Recreation, and the nonprofit Arboretum Fo ...
in
Seattle, Washington. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982 (ID #82004229). It also has city landmark status, with ID #106070.
As observed in a letter to the City Engineering Department in 1912, "The bridge is not an 'apurtenance of the sewer.' It is a piece of ornamental bridge architecture designed elaborately and is a very much greater thing than the sewer itself, in every way."
Accident
On April 16, 2008, a charter bus carrying the Garfield High School girls softball team crashed into the trestle, injuring a number of passengers and shearing off the bus's roof.
Seattle PI 17 April 2008
References
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External links
National Register of Historic Places entry
Sewerage infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places in Seattle
Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
Bridges in Seattle
Concrete bridges in the United States
Trestle bridges in the United States
Bridges completed in 1910
1910 establishments in Washington (state)