GIANT concrete beams may have been seen being carried north through Shepparton over recent weeks.
If you’d wondered what they were for and where they were headed, so had we.
The answer is, they are super-tee beams en route to the Echuca-Moama Bridge Project, the largest transport infrastructure project in northern Victoria.
Between October 2020 and April, 125 precast concrete super-tee beams, three steel beams and a steel truss are being transported to the project site to build the new bridge over the Campaspe River, the back spans of the bridge over the Murray River and two flood relief bridges.
The concrete beams, each weighing 85 tonnes and measuring 35m in length, are being manufactured in Kilmore by NVC Precast.
They are being delivered with specialist escorts using trucks and trailers up to 57m long and 4.4m wide, with up to three deliveries each day between Kilmore and Echuca-Moama.
32 of the beams, bound for Moama, have gone via Shepparton and Barmah on their journey.
The project is expected to be complete by mid-2022.
