WILTON – State transportation workers are digging up a portion of Main Street along Wilson Stream to shore up road support.
Motorists should expect some traffic delays for about two weeks. The construction project is near Wilson Lake and former Bass factory.
Maine Department of Transportation is digging up metal baskets that contain rocks set up in a retaining wall fashion used to support Main Street so that it doesn’t fall into the stream. The baskets were showing wear and were starting to tip toward the stream, DOT Assistant Division 7 Engineer Mark Hume said, and need to be reset and then anchored back into the road.
DOT has budgeted $25,000 for the road project. For the most part, traffic will be limited to one-lane but at times, like Wednesday morning, traffic in both lanes will be stopped for a minimum amount of time while a dump truck is partially loaded with dirt.
Workers are digging up about 75 feet to do the basket work, said DOT Construction Manager Brian Mitchell.
It’s labor intensive, Mitchell said, and workers are trying not to cause traffic delays but sometimes it cannot be helped.
A detour pedestrian route has been set up but there isn’t one for motorists.
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