This might be a stupid question, but I have no idea who I would call to both inspect and repair a private bridge. My situation:
I have two bridges on my place. The first is the main bridge going to my house, which runs over a creek/irrigation ditch (about 25' over the water). No idea who made it, but it has a culvert pipe running underneath it and seems to be supported on the canal banks by big chunks of concrete and steel. The second bridge runs over a creek that separates my main property from my upper pasture (about 20' over the water). This was put in by the previous owner as a shortcut to that pasture (the two pieces of land are actually separate recorded properties). It is basically the flatbed trailer from a big rig that he laid over the creek with around ten feet overlap on each side of the creek bank.
On the first bridge, there's nothing wrong that I can see, but it does look like erosion from higher, faster water during irrigation season (APR-SEP) is starting to appear. Nothing serious at all, but something I want inspected just as a precaution and to do any reinforcement before reinforcement is necessary.
The second bridge, which mostly just handles cows and my UTVs (the former owner said he had taken up to D-5s across it, but I don't plan on that) Does have a couple of areas where the wood has cracked, and a couple of holes where the cows punched through, but from what it looks like, I can easily fix that myself. The main issue here is stream erosion on one side of the bridge. I probably have five or more years before i need to be concerned, but again, want to get an expert opinion on what would need to be done for stream bank reinforcement.
So long story longer, I'm both looking for someone (I would guess with appropriate engineering credentials) to do an overall inspection, then also what term I would use to search for appropriate contractors to do any work necessary. So far for the inspection, all I could find for "bridge inspection" was the big companies that do stuff like freeway bridges. Pretty much the same for "bridge repair" - just the ginormous companies that build the big bridges. Maybe that's all there is, but I was thinking, especially in farm country where there are a lot of these little, private bridges, there would be some smaller, local outfits.
Any suggestions most appreciated.
Edit: Bad grammar. When I say "25' over the water", I mean span over the water, not 25' vertically.