FARMINGTON – Franklin County Emergency Management Agency Manager Tim Hardy and Assistant Manager Olive Toothaker listened to a statewide conference call Tuesday with Maine Emergency Management Agency before Hardy went upstairs to update Franklin County commissioners on storm damage.

Hardy told them the county was fortunate that the predicted amounts of heavy, wet snow didn’t fall because there would have been more power outages.

There were 1,000 customers without power in the county Monday night, and that number had decreased by Tuesday morning. It appeared that Weld and Eustis had the most outages, he said. Power was expected to be restored to most in the area by the end of Tuesday, Hardy said.

Cool temperatures and the change from rain to snow helped keep the flooding problem to a minimum, Hardy said.

“We do have some road damages,” Hardy said, and he and Toothaker will work with communities to get those damages assessed and documented to try to get some disaster relief funds to cover some of the repairs.

While Hardy was upstairs in the commissioners’ office at the Franklin County Courthouse, Toothaker was trying to get estimates of damage from towns.

“It’s going to be hard for some of the towns because snow is covering some of the damage,” Toothaker said.

Livermore Falls EMA Director Ernest Steward Jr. said he submitted information to the Androscoggin County EMA for an estimated $37,194 in damage to portions of Moose Hill Road and Campground Road that were washed out Monday as well as expenses incurred cleaning up debris and putting up barricades.

Livermore Falls Highway Department foreman Denis Castonguay estimated that it would cost $20,000 to repair Moose Hill Road, including paving, and $10,000 to repair about a half-mile of Campground Road, Steward said.

In Wilton, a portion of the Pond Road was extensively damaged Monday. Entering from Route 2, the washed-out portion is about a mile in where the road has a sharp curve downhill and continues on to the Weld Road. Ditches on both sides of the road broke down and at one point, there is only 3 to 4 feet left in the middle of the road. The rest of the road caved in on both sides.

Town Manager Peter Nielsen went out to look at the damage, took photographs and spoke with the EMA office Tuesday afternoon. He roughly estimated a cost of $35,000 to put in gravel and tar. The town should be eligible for some reimbursement through EMA, he said. Temporary repairs will begin Wednesday. Ditches blocked with snow may have been the reason for the water backup and subsequent damage, he said.

A Central Maine spokeswoman, Gail Rice, said there were only about 400 households still without power Tuesday in the Farmington service area. This number is down from around 2,000 yesterday.

Fifteen line workers with tree crews were working to restore power, but she wasn’t sure if it would all be accomplished Tuesday. Some new car and pole accidents and a few strong gusts of wind had created a few new calls Tuesday morning, Rice said.

Local fire departments were kept busy Monday with calls for downed trees on wires and pumping water from basements. Farmington Fire Chief Terry Bell said they received 10 or 11 calls Monday. One was a chimney fire with the rest storm-related.

Calls had slowed down Tuesday. Wilton Fire Chief Sonny Dunham said his department was busy with washed-out roads and cellar pumping.

Precipitation totals in the area were up to 2.17 inches Monday with the normal about 0.13 inches, according to the National Weather Bureau’s Web site.