AUBURN — Crews will work overnight on Center Street the next two months, repaving the road from Court Street all the way to Lake Auburn.
State contractors have been busy getting the road ready since June 5, according to Maine Department of Transportation Resident Technician Rachel Damon.
The actual work begins this Sunday.
“It’s a big project, what we call a mill-and-fill,” Damon said. Work is scheduled to wrap up by Aug. 19.
It’s one of the biggest traffic-slowing projects planned for the Twin Cities this summer. Several city projects are under way in Auburn and Lewiston and many others are planned over the next few months.
Damon said the Center Street project is slated to begin at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 12, at Lake Auburn. Crews will begin milling the pavement on both northbound and southbound lanes, working their way downtown. Damon said crews hope to cover 2,000 feet each night between the lake and Niskayuna Street.
Paving on that section should begin a week later.
Crews will work on individual lanes from Niskayuna Street south, milling 4,000 feet of road each night.
One lane is scheduled to be open at all times and work will stop by 6 a.m., opening the full road to travel, Damon said.
Lincoln Street in Lewiston will get a similar reworking, City Engineer Wes Enman said. Plans call for widening the road, removing the pavement and replacing new gravel and asphalt from the cross canal to South Street.
Enman said the project has been awarded to Gendron and Gendron but a work schedule had not yet been set.
A smaller project is scheduled for Ernest Street between Central Avenue and Hogan Road beginning June 20.
The Lewiston Sewer Department is working on storm-sewer separation projects on Nichols and Lafayette streets. The Lafayette Street work is part of a larger Jepson Brook storm-water separation project that will move to Campus Avenue, Green Street, Forest Street and Sylvan Avenue later this summer.
In Auburn, road crews are working on three paving projects: Caron Lane, Hatch Road and Fletcher Road. Auburn City Engineer Dan Goyette said those are full road reconstructions and should last several weeks. Work on Hatch Road should wrap up in August. Work on Caron Lane and Fletcher Road should be done in July.
Goyette said the three projects are part of the city’s 2010-11 roadwork. The projects for 2011-12, scheduled to begin in July, have not been awarded.
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