DIXFIELD – Selectmen approved a $24,470 road repair, drainage and paving project for the intersection of Bradley and Blayne streets, and Blayne Street itself Monday night.

Work by Bruce A. Manzer Inc. of Anson is to begin this spring and proceed through the summer, said acting Public Works Director Tim Hanson.

“I don’t know where the money’s coming from, but if we do it, we might as well do it right,” said Town Manager Nanci Allard about completing needed drainage work on the old roads.

Manzer submitted a bid of $899 to grind a butt joint along the intersection of the two roads and the beginning of Bradley Street repair work.

The price also includes Manzer’s furnishing and installation of necessary shim to elevate the centerline grade to force water into a corner basin to prevent it from jumping across Blayne Street, and one inch of surface mix.

For $15,280, the Anson paver is to engineer and layout the Blayne Street job, furnish and install drainage structures, and several feet of under-drain piping, pipe bedding and rip rap for system discharge.

Another $8,300 covers the engineering, grading and paving of Blayne Street, turning the narrow lane into a 20-foot-wide road with 6-foot-wide shoulders on either side, and bituminous curbing on the low side.

New guardrails are to be installed as well along Blayne Street where needed.

Selectman Chairman Hugh Daley said the town could use Federal Emergency Management Agency money – which officials expect to receive – for the project.

That money was designated as part of the flood relief package for towns in Oxford County that were particularly hard hit by mid-December’s heavy rains that created ice jams on area streams and rivers, causing several road washouts.

A section of Blayne Street washed out when Beedy Brook took out water lines to two homes and the culvert that carries the brook into Webb River, creating a huge gully.

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