- Date
- 1997
- Kind
- Construction
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- constructioninfrastructuretransportationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The October 1997 Beaver Beacon profiles Bobbi Welke, the Michigan Department of Transportation project manager for the $79.4 million second Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron. It reports that the 1.22-mile span was completed on time and on budget, and connects Welke’s engineering career with her Beaver Island family cabin tradition.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper profile rather than a transportation-agency completion record or engineering project file.
Sources
- Profiles 37-year-old MDOT project manager Bobbi Welke, who managed the $79.4 million second Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron. The article says the 1.22-mile span opened on time and on budget, and identifies Welke as Robert Welke’s daughter and a Beaver Island family-cabin owner building a cabin of her own. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1997-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the Bobbi Welke profile.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1997-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Bobbi Welke leads the second Blue Water Bridge project in 1997”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-bobbi-welke-blue-water-bridge-1997/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1997, “A Woman Built the new Blue Water Bridge?” and “Bobbi Welke, Bridge Builder.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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