The Imperial Highway Bridge over the San Gabriel River has been seismically retrofit in the Cities of Downey and Norwalk, Supervisor Don Knabe announced today.

This $812,040 project is a part of the Federal Highway Bridge Program. Under this program, Federal funds are allocated to local agencies and are used to finance 88.53 percent of the eligible costs of bridge seismic retrofit projects. The remaining 11.47 percent of the cost of the project will be financed with State Proposition 1B funds. Additional funding for the project was provided by the Fourth Supervisorial District’s Road Construction Program.

By retrofitting this bridge, both the drivers and pedestrians who use the bridge will benefit by crossing a safer bridge, said Supervisor Knabe.