AUBURN – Sidewalk replacement and street paving should begin in the next few weeks, according to city engineers.

Seven streets, including three in New Auburn, will see sidewalk replacements, paid with federal Community Development Block Grant money.

Crews will install a new layer of asphalt on 10 roads across the city. And three streets, High, Maple and Vine, will see full reclamation work. That involves new road drains, sidewalks and a new layer of road bed and pavement.

That work is in addition to road work along Auburn’s Mall area and natural gas replacement work.

“We have a lot of work to do, and it should carry us right up to when the asphalt plants close in November,” Project Engineer Jonathan Earle said.

Crews from St. Laurent and Sons of Lewiston should begin the sidewalk work later this month. That work will cost the city $330,000, paid with federal block grants.

The city opened bid on the 10 paving projects last week, but Earle said they’ve not awarded the contract. That work is scheduled to begin in July and will cost an estimated $452,000.

The three road reclamation projects should begin even later in the summer. Gendron and Gendron will do those projects.

“They were all funded out of last year’s budget,” Earle said.