Wujiao Lower Pipeline Bridge

Wujiao Lower Pipeline Bridge
乌角输水管线桥
Leibo, Sichuan, China
574 feet high / 175 meters high
(394) foot span / (120) meter span
(1995)

Sitting almost directly below the newer and much higher Wujiao Pipeline Bridge is the original Wujiao Lower Pipeline Bridge completed XX years earlier in 20XX. A large water canal runs along and even inside the cliff for several kilometers on the east side of the crossing.

The newer 2018 Wujiao Pipeline Bridge is the highest pipeline bridge in the world with a deck 410 meters high. The spindly structure has a deck made of welded sheet metal panels approximately 1.5 meters wide and was built to carry water across a deep canyon at the mouth of a major Jinshajiang tributary that flows into the deep reservoir that was formed by the giant Xiluodu Dam near Leibo City.

With a height of 285.5 meters, Xiluodu is among the 5 tallest concrete dams in the world and is located on the border of Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces.