Agate Rd. over Brushy Bayou

Evangeline Parish, Louisiana · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

United States Bridge Conditions2025 National Bridge Inventory, FHWACompiled August 20, 2026

• Agate Rd. over Brushy Bayou in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
• Its lowest-rated component is the superstructure, rated 4 (poor condition) on the 0-9 scale.
• It was built in 2003, making it 22 years old at the 2025 inventory.
• It carries about 17 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2021).
• Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
• It is one of 10 of the 155 inventoried bridges in Evangeline Parish rated poor (6.5%); 10 (6.5%) are rated poor.
• Its traffic status in the 2025 inventory is posted for load (NBI item 41).
• It was rated fair in the 2024 inventory and is now poor (superstructure 6 to 4, substructure 5 to 4).
• Its most recent inspection on record is dated April 2024, on a 12-month routine inspection cycle.
• It is coded scour critical (NBI item 113 = 3): scour critical: foundations unstable for the assessed or calculated scour.
• A poor rating means at least one major component - deck, superstructure, or substructure - is rated 4 or lower on FHWA's 0-9 scale. It does not by itself mean the bridge is unsafe; bridges judged unsafe are closed or load-restricted by their owners.

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Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2025 data as reported by the Louisiana department of transportation.

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