Road restoration will pause for fair

DURHAM — Eversource is working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to perform road repairs for both the ongoing gas and water projects.

Laydon Industries, a contractor working for Eversource, will be performing road repairs of town roads, as well as routes 17 and 68.

Route 17 in Middletown will also be milled and repaved up to the Talcott Ridge Drive, according to a press release.

No work will be done during the Durham Agricultural Fair.

Remaining work

Raising the water line valve boxes and the town catch basins on Maiden Lane, Maple Avenue and Talcott Lane, which will be performed just before these roads receive the two-inch pavement overlay

Two-inch pavement overlay for Maple Avenue, Talcott Lane and Maiden Lane

Driveway aprons and topsoil along the road edge of town of Durham roads, which will be added to match the new road height after paving is completed

Paving a short section of Packinghouse Road

Finished work

Milling and paving work on routes 17 and 68 is complete

Curb replacement and line striping on routes 17 and 68

Re-compaction and repaving of the water line trenches on Maiden Lane, Talcott Lane, and Maple Avenue north of Route 68 is complete, except for a short section of Maiden Lane at the Ball Brook Stream crossing.

For information, contact John Reed at Eversource, 860-3186869, or Jeffrey Polley at Laydon Industries, 203-562-7283. For details on the water line project, visit epa.gov/superfund/durham.