UPTON – A 350-foot-long section of East B Hill Road that washed out in 2004 and again in 2006 will finally get paved this fall.

Twenty-two voters at Thursday night’s special town meeting sided with selectmen, agreeing to take $3,000 from surplus and the remainder from the summer and winter roads and equipment repair account for the job, estimated to cost $17,000.

Money in that account was approved at town meeting on March 8, but an article that would have raised $20,000 from taxes to fix the road section was, at that time, defeated.

“It washed out last year and we repaired the base, but we didn’t have enough money to pave it then,” Selectman Paul Casey said by phone late Friday afternoon in Upton.

“It will be nice to have that fixed. It was a bit dangerous,” Town Clerk James Rector said by phone late Friday afternoon.

Prior to the March 8 town meeting, Rector said heavy rains hammered the section of the road in 2004 and the town repaired and partially paved it. However, thawing in 2005 affected water and clay under the road, and the repair work slid downhill.

Currently, every time a hard rain hits, it wreaks havoc with the repaired section.

Casey said selectmen are already soliciting bids and expect to get the work done before winter arrives.

Voters also unanimously OK’d raising an additional $688 for school expenses, money that will complement the $63,365 raised at the March 8 town meeting, and $1,500 through taxation for the vehicle fuel account.

Casey said selectmen underestimated how much money was needed for fuel.

“We weren’t figuring we’d still have to pay close to $3 a gallon by now,” he added.

Overall, both Casey and Rector said Thursday night’s meeting ran well.

“It was a good, informative meeting and good decisions were made. There was no major opposition,” Casey said.