City crews are finishing last-minute road work before the snow flies.
Road crews will take advantage of the nice weather, for another couple of weeks.
Crews in both cities finished most of their scheduled work on city roads this week. But Auburn Engineering Technician Jim DePalma said he plans to take advantage of the recent nice weather to finish up some last-minute projects.
“If it snows, we’ll put those all aside for the spring,” DePalma said. “We plan on doing as much as we can before the snow actually falls.”
DePalma said crews are scheduled to continue working on paving Vickery Road between Riverside Drive and South Main Street. Crews were scheduled to put the first layer of asphalt down this week, and continue building curbs and doing finishing work.
“If it snows, we’ll pull everyone off it and open it up,” DePalma said.
Crews will also continue ledge blasting work on Western Avenue regardless of the weather. That road is scheduled for repaving work next spring.
In Lewiston, crews are wrapping up work on the last of 40 street repaving projects this year. Overall, the city worked on more than 10 miles of city roads, putting down more than 20,000 tons of asphalt.
“That’s more than the department has ever done in the past,” Jones said.
The city has 14 more streets it plans to repave next spring, he said. That work should begin after spring cleanup is finished.
Most of the city’s other public works projects have been buttoned up until spring.
Crews are scheduled to begin spreading hay around the concrete work at the corner of Main and Lincoln streets next week as a part of the city’s new Gateway Park construction. Work on that park will continue next spring.
On Plourde Parkway, all but the final surface pavement has been put down. That work also will continue in the spring, Jones said. Work on the Gulley Brook storm sewer project has also wrapped up for the winter.
Crews will still continue working on sidewalks on Pine Street near Sabattus Street and at the corner of Main and Chapel streets. And crews will continue digging new drainage ditches along Crowley Road near the Sabattus town line for a couple of weeks.
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