during the biennial inspection in august (of 2013), a "handful" of the beams were found to be bent downward about a quarter-inch at the outer end — the end that lies at the outer edge of the right-hand lanes. "it's just ever so slight, literally the size of my pencil eraser," maher said of the deformation. as a result of the discovery, the eastbound and westbound right-hand lanes of the irondequoit bay bridge were closed without notice early october 2013 and reopened in march 2014.