LIVERMORE – Selectpersons awarded two contracts this week for grounds maintenance and engineering work on Turkey Lane.

Four bids were received to do lawn and grounds maintenance for this year. That work includes lawn mowing, trimming, cleanup and some shrubbery care at the town office, North Livermore Commons, beach area at Brettuns Pond, two boat launches on Route 4, ball fields, community building and veterans memorials at Brettuns.

The board awarded the one-year contract to Outdoor Solutions of Livermore for a bid of $4,900, selectperson’s Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub said.

It is $400 less than last year, he said.

Other bidders were $5,300 from both C & C Lawn Care of Leeds and T & T Lawn Care of Livermore and $5,400 from John Ranger of Dixfield.

Selectpersons also awarded the engineering services work on the north section of Turkey Lane to A.E. Hodsdon Consulting Engineers of Waterville. The firm’s base price was $7,560 for design work and offered to do additional work of putting bid packages together and reviewing bids once submitted and on-site engineering services during construction for an additional $5,355, Schaub said. The firm’s total price was $12,915.

The firm will review a Maine Department of Transportion design that was done in 1989 to see if that design will perform to the requirements of the Federal Emergency Management Agency grant, which is to withstand a 50-year flood.

The grant is for $108,000 with the town picking up the remainder of the $132,000 project cost. Voters have already approved money from state road aid for the town’s match, Schaub said.

The project calls for replacing two concrete culverts with two substantially larger pipe arch culverts and to raise that section of road, he said.

The goal is to fix the road so that when it floods, the water will no longer wash over the road, located off Route 108.

The other firm submitting a proposal was Main-Land Development Consultants of Livermore Falls for $12,500 that didn’t include on-site engineering work.