For the third consecutive day a tow has struck the old U.S. 80 bridge, striking it at pier No. 3 on the Mississippi side of the river.

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the 25-barge tow carrying grain pushed by the motor vessel Robert D. Byrd owned by ACBL River Operations struck the bridge about 7:44 a.m. The river remains open to traffic a Coast Guard spokesman said.

Bridge superintendent Herman Smith said the tow hit the pier.

“It just scraped the bridge and nothing sunk,” he said. “We went down and looked at the pier and you can barely see where it hit.”