A Maine Department of Transportation crewman walks around a boom truck to watch as a large boulder is lowered into place Wednesday morning during a project to fix an eroded section of the Androscoggin River bank beside Route 2 in Dixfield. Traffic was limited to one lane.

Maine Department of Transportation workers Dan Bradbury and Jim Austin, partially hidden, secure a strap around a boulder held up by a bucket loader Wednesday morning on Route 2 in Dixfield. The strap was then connected to the boom hook, at center, and lowered into place on the black tarp behind Bradbury on the bank of the Androscoggin River. Traffic was limited to one lane while crewmen placed riprap on a 15-foot-long eroded gash in the bank where high water this summer threatened to undermine Route 2’s eastbound lane.