Excerpt from California Highways and Public Works, 1945-1947, Vol. 23: Official Journal of the Division of Highways, Department of Public Works, State of CaliforniaThe protection of this investment and the maintenance of the bridges in such condition that they will best serve the traveling public is a duty of the Bridge Department of the Division of Highways. Within the Bridge Department, maintenance work is handled directly by the Maintenance and Research Section. Methods of repair and maintenance as developed and field tested by this section over a number of years have included several practices that are worthy of note and should be of interest to the engineers and construction men engaged in this work throughout the Country.There will be no attempt made to enumerate all maintenance problems encountered, but the more important fea tures of the work, with illustrations, will be covered in a series of articles, of which this is the second. It deals with Repairs and Replacements to Bulkheads and Abutments.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.