Crown Point bridge construction site swamped by Lake Champlain

Even as the floodwaters rose through the last week, state and local officials insisted that construction of the Crown Point bridge’s steel arch would continue at a construction site in Port Henry.

They eventually had to concede that the project was stalled — or call it swamped, rather — and these pictures illustrate why.

Flatiron’s construction site has essentially merged with Lake Champlain, with heavy equipment (and port-o-potties) deep in the water.

The entire Port Henry-Moriah waterfront has been hit devastatingly hard by the rising lake levels, as this next photographs shows.

It was actually kind of eery yesterday evening, with the lamplights on what is usually a pedestrian pier still lit and glowing far out into the lake.

Bridge construction was slated to be done by October.  No word yet on what a reset date might be.

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