Town to save $132K on road rebuild
MOUNT DESERT — The town will pay $132,218 less than anticipated to complete the last 810 feet of the reconstruction of Route 198 this coming spring.
The Maine Department of Transportation, which has split the cost of the entire 2.2-mile project with the town, will save the same amount.
The first 1.1 miles of the project, from about a quarter of a mile north of the Parkman Mountain parking lot the Giant Slide trailhead, was completed in 2018 at a total cost of about $1 million.
The second half of the project, from the trailhead to Eagle Lake Road, was to have been completed last year, also at a cost of $1 million. But because of cost overruns, the project was halted near the intersection of Route 198 and the northern end of Butler Road.