San Joaquin 0.5 Km over Muerto Creek

Adjuntas Municipio, Puerto Rico · rated Fair in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

• San Joaquin 0.5 Km over Muerto Creek in Adjuntas Municipio, Puerto Rico, is rated in fair condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
• Its lowest-rated component is the superstructure, rated 5 (fair condition) on the 0-9 scale.
• It was built in 1940, making it 85 years old at the 2025 inventory.
• It carries about 7,700 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2017).
• Its listed owner is a city or municipal highway agency.
• It is one of 26 of the 36 inventoried bridges in Adjuntas Municipio rated fair (72.2%); 6 (16.7%) are rated poor.
• Its traffic status in the 2025 inventory is open, posting recommended but not legally implemented (NBI item 41).
• Its condition class and component ratings are unchanged from the 2024 inventory.
• Status change: its 2024 load posting has been removed.
• Its most recent inspection on record is dated September 2023, on a 24-month routine inspection cycle.
• It is coded scour critical (NBI item 113 = 3): scour critical: foundations unstable for the assessed or calculated scour.
• A fair rating means the lowest-rated major component scores 5 or 6 on FHWA's 0-9 scale: some deterioration or minor section loss, but the structure is sound. It is the middle class, not a warning.

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

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