AUBURN – City crews will close two lanes of Minot Avenue today, beginning several weeks of work building a new storm-sewer system.

It should be one of the last big projects that city crews try to tackle for the 2005 season, according to Jim DePalma, engineering technician with the city of Auburn.

“We will finish it this year, unless we get really bad weather,” DePalma said. “It would take a week’s worth of rain, solid, to slow us down. Usually, if I lose a day per week to rain, we can make it.”

Crews will close the two westbound lanes of Minot Avenue between Cleveland Avenue and Fairview School. Traffic will be reduced to two lanes for the duration, with both directions sharing the inbound traffic lanes.

DePalma said the work should finished by Thanksgiving.

Crews should also begin part of the proposed downtown storm sewer project in two weeks, working on Main Street between Mechanics Row and Elms Street.

In Lewiston, crews will begin grinding off the old painted lanes on Lisbon Street south of the Maine Turnpike overpass today. City painting crews will begin putting down new lines and a three-lane scheme for that road on Oct. 26.

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