SKINNERS FALLS, NY and MILANVILLE, PA — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) returned to the Skinners Falls Bridge the morning of Monday, April 21, to complete the destruction it had begun the prior Thursday. 

Around 9:30 a.m., an excavator with a jackhammer arm came up to the central pier of the bridge and drilled into it, causing chunks of stone to slough off like chunks from a calving iceberg. Before anything more could happen, yellow-vested workers came running down the causeway, calling for the excavator to stop its work.

The destruction paused for an hour, resuming around 10:30 a.m. After a few minutes of drilling into the central pier, attacking the upstream side near the top, the Pennsylvania span of the Skinners Falls Bridge came loose, crashing down into the waters of the Delaware River below.

The destruction of the Skinners Falls Bridge began Thursday, April 17, with PennDOT taking down the bridge's New York span. Click here for more pictures and video from that demolition. 

The demolition follows up on a ruling on Tuesday, April 15, in which Judge Karoline Mehalchick of the United States District Court made a ruling in PennDOT's favor, denying an injunction that would have stopped the bridge's demolition. Click here for more on that ruling. 

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