College and Webster street residents in Lewiston could see some road interruptions this week.

Public Works crews will be concentrating on storm drain separation projects along College Street and along Webster Street. The College Street project was scheduled to begin Sunday, May 18, with crews digging near the College-Sabattus street intersection.

“They are going to try and keep get most of that work done at night,” Assistant Public Works Director Dave Jones said. “They should be able to keep the road open for traffic, but they may have to close one thing or another.”

Traffic will be detoured onto side streets around the work while it’s going on, however. Jones said that work – which includes digging up the road, laying pipe, reburying it and repaving the road – should take about a month.

Crews also will be restarting the Gulley Brook project, which kicked off last year and is supposed to wrap up in September. Crews will be installing new storm drains within a rough square bordered by Howard, Webster, Ash and Walnut streets.

Public works crews also will be concentrating on sidewalk cleaning operations this week. They are scheduled to begin road preparations next week for the city’s road paving work.

“That involves raising manholes and making sure the drains are in place,” Jones said.

In Auburn, crews will be blasting and drilling on Granite Street as part of the city’s storm water separation project and should be finishing work on Spring Street downtown.

“What they should do is to restore the sidewalks and curbs and pave most of the trenches,” Auburn City Engineer Steve Ranney said. “They have some other work to do there, and they should be back towards the end of the summer.”

That work involves installing catch basins along the road and digging some trenches that will connect into the new storm sewer. Some of that work is being waiting for gas utility work.

Crews are scheduled to begin reconstruction along Western Avenue from Hazel Avenue to Summit Street the week of May 26

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