Ganyu Bridge

Ganyu Bridge
鳡鱼大桥
Ganyuxiang, Sichuan, China
433 feet high / 132 meters high
656 foot span / 200 meter span
(2012)

Ertan was the first of many large dams to be built across the Yalong River. With a height of 240 meters, the concrete arch structure also became famous as the highest dam in China. Since its completion in 1999, many other Chinese dams have been built that are higher including the Yalong River Lianghekou Dam but Ertan still has the distinction of having created one of the longest reservoir lakes in China with a length of over 200 kilometers.

The Ganyu Bridge is located across one of the many Yalong tributaries that were flooded by the lake. The new Ganyu arch bridge replaced an older 1-lane suspension bridge that was built sometime in the mid-1990s during the construction of Ertan Dam. The wider 2-lane concrete arch bridge has a main span of 200 meters and was constructed using stay cables attached to temporary towers over 50 meters tall.

The older suspension bridge had a main span of approximately 245 meters.