Dry Mill Road closes to through traffic beginning April 17

Beginning at 10 p.m. Friday, April 17, Dry Mill Road (Route 699) will be closed to through traffic for approximately a month between the Route 9 (Charles Town Pike)/Route 7 Business (Colonial Highway) intersection and Woodburn Road (Route 769) for Dry Mill Road over Washington & Old Dominion Trail bridge rehabilitation project work, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

Those needing to reach properties along Dry Mill Road will have access; however, they will not be able to go beyond the bridge (located slightly east of the Route 9/Route 7 Business intersection) in either direction.

Through traffic will be detoured via Route 7 Business, Harmony Church Road (Route 704), and Woodburn Road back to Dry Mill Road.

The bridge is scheduled to reopen to traffic by Friday, May 15.

The Washington & Old Dominion Trail will remain open at all times; the existing protective canopy on the trail at the bridge will be extended outward for trail users’ safety. Trail users may encounter temporary stoppages at the bridge; if they do, such stoppages will last no more than 15 minutes.

The weight-restricted (27 tons) masonry stone arch bridge that carries Dry Mill Road over the W&OD Trail dates to the 19th century and was rehabilitated in 2006. 

The bridge rehabilitation project includes:

• Installing a strengthening system for the stone arch to remove current weight restrictions
• Repairing bridge spandrel walls and stone masonry
• Upgrading the parapets
• Installing slope protection and new guardrail and end treatments
• Washing the bridge
• Repaving the roadway approaches up to 100 feet on either side of the bridge

You can get traffic, work zone and incident information online at 511.vdot.virginia.gov, via the free mobile 511Virginia app, or by calling 511 in Virginia anywhere anytime.

View this release online.

Follow VDOT Northern Virginia on Twitter: @vadotnova