By Nick P. Angelides,Special to the Sun Journal

SABATTUS – Selectmen from Sabattus and Bowdoin agreed Tuesday night that Bowdoin will continue to maintain a 150-foot piece of Pinewood Acres Road, as it has done since 1993.

There is only one residence on the Sabattus piece and more than 40 on Bowdoin’s stretch.

Sabattus Code Enforcement Officer Richard Behr said the 150-foot section was never abandoned by the town, despite what some contend.

Bowdoin Selectmen Michael Adcock and Marc Bernier said their town has maintained Sabattus’ part of the road in the past with Sabattus’ permission.

“Our school buses and plow trucks also circle up through there,” Adcock said. “To plow the extra 150 feet that is on the Sabattus side just seems to make sense.”

A letter explaining the agreement will be sent to Bowdoin and the Sabattus resident on the road.

The board was also notified by the Department of Environmental Protection that due to corrosion on the town’s bulk fuel tanks, no fuel deliveries would be permitted until the problem is fixed.

Repairs are estimated to cost $2,700. Selectmen Steve Wood and Mark Duquette said the money should be taken from undesignated funds since that is where a 5-cents-per-gallon charge that was created for such repairs has been placed for more than 20 years.

“We should be able to go back to 1981 and multiply the amount of gallons we have used by 5 cents and use that money for the repair,” Selectman William Luce said. “But we have no record on whether that 5 cents was actually deposited into that account through the years.”

He and Selectman Guy Desjardins were hesitant to dip into the fund and instead recommended taking money from the public works gas budget.

Although the board disagreed on where the money should come from, selectmen decided to go ahead with the repair and decide later.

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