BETHEL – Roads here were open to traffic Monday, although at least one was layered with ice and crossed by river water.

The ice-jammed Androscoggin River still flowed above its banks and across both lanes of Intervale Road at a low spot just beyond its junction with Holt Hill Road.

Water was only a couple inches deep in the pool, but drivers had to exercise care due to lengths of ice tracked out of either end by traffic.

Both sides of the narrow road were packed with ice chunks, cake-like sheets and floes, remnants of Thursday’s flood.

Town officials hoped to have a damage estimate Tuesday of the flooding that isolated Bethel and temporarily shut down the water treatment plant.

Flooding kept police and firefighters busy as they closed roads and at one point Thursday morning, evacuated people from a trailer park.

While out patrolling and checking roadways for flooding, officer Michael Grenier noticed that the Jonathan Clark Lane Trailer Park entryway was blocked by water up to 3 feet deep.

Bethel firefighters responded with their rescue boat, evacuating all but three residents who refused to leave, according to Grenier’s police report.

Police Chief Darren Tripp assisted firefighters in the boat while Grenier handled traffic control at the intersection of Route 5 and West Bethel Road.

tkarkos@sunjournal.com

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