under pressure rises above the aquifer level. A __________ is located where the pressure surface is above the aquifer, but below the ground. nonflowing artesian well. If a well is drilled into an aquifer where the pressure surface is both above the aquifer and the ground, a __________ is formed. flowing artesian well.
Longest Single Span: 1,200 feet. Engineer(s): Figg & Muller Engineering Group. Completed in 1987, the Sunshine Skyway is the world's longest cable-stayed concrete bridge. It is probably the best known of the several dozen cable-stayed bridges that have been built in the United States since the late 1970s.
The Sunshine Skyway isn't the first bridge to span the broad mouth of the Tampa Bay. In fact, a four-mile steel cantilever bridge used to live where the new Sunshine Skyway now stands. But during a violent thunderstorm on the morning of May 9, 1980, the freighter Summit Venture plowed into the cantilever bridge.