Paving crews in Auburn should finish fixing the last of the damage from January and March water main breaks this week.

Crews from TW Paving in Lewiston started replacing damaged portions of Center, Turner and Washington streets and Minot Avenue last week. Company owner Tony White said that starting Tuesday those crews will be back to put down the last layers of new pavement.

“We finished up the base coats, and we like to let that sit for three or four days,” White said. “We just let the cars pound on it for a little bit. Then we come back and put down that last inch of asphalt.”

White’s crews should be closing lanes on each of those roads for several hours.

“But the majority of the real time-consuming stuff should be done,” he said. “We should be in and out pretty quickly.”

Crews had to replace a 20-foot section of pipe under the Center Street last January after freezing temperatures helped rupture the line.

A spectacular crash along the Washington Street/Minot Avenue rotary in March broke hydrant and helped break a water main. Sections of the rotary cracked open and water flowed toward the downtown area.

“All of those are main arterials for the city, so it’s pretty important to us to get them fixed properly,” said City Engineer Steve Ranney. Ranney said work on each road should take no more than a day each.

Ranney said the crews from Northern Utilities would be moving up Court Street this week as well, working on a natural gas main line under Gamage Avenue. Traffic on that road would be down to one lane for part of the week, he said.

And city contractors should be finishing reconstruction work on Vickery Road. That work started last fall, and crews should continue removing the old pavement, rebuilding the road base and putting down new asphalt this week.

State crews working on Route 121 between Auburn and Poland will be concentrating on sections near the Auburn city limit, according to project manager Dave Lycette. That road will be down to one lane for much of the week, he said.

“We expect them to get to the paving towards the middle of the week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,” Lycette said. “That’s when people really need to be advised to find another way to go. There’s a good likelihood they’ll get in the way of that paving if they don’t.”

In Lewiston, road crews from Gendron and Gendron will be installing a new storm drain on Drew Street next week, and then paving sections of Webster and Pine streets. Public Works Director Dave Jones said crews will also continue build a Main Street sidewalk near Chapel Street.

City crews will be closing Lincoln Street overnight one day this week, but Jones said he didn’t know which day. They’ll be connecting electrical lines to a new park on the corner of Lincoln and Main streets.

The city of Lewiston is doing the work itself, and Jones said that project could wait until they’d finished spring cleanup.

“This is our last week, so we’ll see how that goes,” Jones said.

City crews are also scheduled to put down a layer of asphalt on Deer Road and College Street between Stetson Road and Lemieux Street.

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