FARMINGTON – Selectmen will hold a public hearing Tuesday on proposed amendments to the traffic ordinance, including making Church Street one way, Town Manager Richard Davis said.

The hearing will be part of the board’s 6:30 p.m. meeting at the town office.

Part of the proposed Church Street project includes making it one way with new sidewalks, parallel parking on the street and better access to the Anson Street county parking lot.

Church Street connects Main Street, between Java Joe’s and the courthouse, with High Street.

Davis will also give the board an update on the Hows Corner Superfund Site in Plymouth. The town’s involvement should conclude by the end of the year, Davis said. This has been an ongoing situation since the 1990s from which the town has incurred legal expenses through representation by Eaton Peabody in Bangor. Several thousand dollars have been spent, he said.

Along with other Maine municipalities, schools and agencies, the town hired a service in the 1960s to dispose of waste oil and has to pay its share of waste oil cleanup at the abandoned waste oil site at Hows Corner in Plymouth in Penobscot County.

George West operated a waste oil disposal business, Portland-Bangor Waste Oil Co., in Plymouth between 1965 and 1980. He later went out of business and abandoned the site.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began cleaning up the site in the 1990s after contamination was found in a residential well. The site was declared a Superfund site by the federal government. Superfund is the government’s program to cleanup the nation’s uncontrolled hazardous waste sites, as stated on the EPA Web site.

Federal law also requires contributors to share in the cost of cleanup if a business that caused the pollution cannot fund the cleanup.

Other business on the board’s agenda includes an update on the proposed Whistle-Stop Trail Bridge over the Sandy River where the railroad trestle used to be between Farmington and West Farmington.

The board will also sign the warrants for the SAD 9 budget referendum with voting taking place June 12. Farmington’s portion is up about $120,000 this year, he said, but the higher amount for individual taxpayers won’t be known until the middle of August after other revenues are reviewed and determination of the new evaluation amounts.