JACKSON TWP — Township supervisors discussed building an emergency bridge behind Seneca Valley High School on Monday.

“We applied for multimodal funding for a bridge over the Little Connoquenessing Creek,” township manager Chris Rearick said. “It’s essentially designed for emergency access.”

The proposed bridge would extend from the backside of the campus to Evergreen Mill Road. Access to it would be under the jurisdiction of the school district.

“It would allow for pedestrian and bicycle access at the discretion of the school,” Rearick said. “The initial catalyst for the idea was to have that reciprocal access where — if there were an emergency on campus or on Seneca School road and access was limited — it could be used for access to campus.”

The bridge would also serve The Grove at Harmony, a nursing home on Evergreen Mill Road, as well as JADCO Manufacturing, Inc.