Crews have made significant progress on a bridge over a problematic low water crossing in Marble Falls, officials say.
Marble Falls administrators offered an update May 12 on the Avenue N bridge, which cost approximately $4 million.
Avenue N Bridge is expected to open for motorists in late September 2026. The structure will be about 15-feet over the previous low-water crossing - high enough to handle peak flow from a 50-year flood event.
The new bridge will allow pedestrians on Backbone Trail to cross under the structure without needing to cross Ave N. roadway, allowing for a continuous unimpeded path from Johnson Park to West Side Park. Ave N is designed to handle flooding events that would have historically closed the roadway until flooding subsided The north end of the 780-ft. structure, is just past a railroad crossing, and the south end is between Backbone Street and Johnson Street.
Officials initially proposed the bridge after the October 2018 flood due to the closure of the crossing, impacting 1,335 residents in the City of Marble Falls and 2,500 residents in the City of Meadowlakes. An average of 3,857 ve- hicles use the crossing daily, officials said.
Through a Flood Infrastructure Fund (FIF) program, the municipal- ity qualified for a 75-25 percent matching grant.
Total cost was first es - timated at $3,579,498; approximately $2.68 million would be funded through a Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP); $662,000 in grants would come from another 74 percent match from the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB); and the city-funded remaining balance, eligible for zero- percent interest loan, was estimated at approximately $232,000. The City of Meadowlakes committed to paying approximately $57,000 towards the project.
Currently, motorists detour on side roads and Johnson Park as construction continues.
