Tests on a steel anchor rod removed from the Bay Bridge eastern span’s tower after being inadvertently submerged in water for years revealed rust and tiny cracks, bridge officials said Friday — a ...

Caltrans engineers have ordered that all of the 424 steel anchor rods at the base of new Bay Bridge eastern span’s tower be inspected after crews found more than three dozen of them had been sitting ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Inspectors are trying to assess how safe the new Bay Bridge is after salt water was found seeping in and rusted some of its 400 steel rods. So far, inspectors have looked at ...

California transportation officials said Friday that corrosion and cracking have been found on one of the steel anchor rods that secures the new suspension span tower for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay ...

See orange steel on a jobsite and the alarm bells start ringing. Fair enough. But the color alone does not tell the whole story. What really matters is whether the rust is just a thin film on the ...