By Andreas Yilma, Staff Writer
NAUGATUCK The Board of Mayor and Burgesses this month supported a five-year paving plan officials hope will get worn-out streets on the road to recovery.
“In the next five years we want to make a major dent in completing the town and getting our roads up to standard,” Mayor N. Warren “Pete” Hess said.
Under the plan, the borough is looking to do about $1.6 million worth of road work in the spring of 2021. The plan is to pave 34 roads in the spring, including all or parts of Maple Hill Street, City Hill Court, Maple Terrace, Curtis Court and Central Avenue.
By Andreas Yilma, Staff Writer
Naugatuck and Beacon Falls officials have approved an agreement for a joint project to repair the Beacon Valley Road Bridge, shown Dec. 2, which is on the border of the two municipalities. –ANDREAS YILMA
NAUGATUCK Naugatuck and Beacon Falls officials have reached an agreement on a joint project to repair the Beacon Valley Road Bridge.
The bridge straddles the border of the municipalities and connects Beacon Valley Road in Beacon Falls and Cotton Hollow Road in Naugatuck.
The stone bridge was built in 1933 and has corrugated metal arches with stone masonry headwalls. The arches are founded on masonry footings with concrete caps, which have heavily eroded, according to a memorandum from Milone and MacBroom, an engineering firm based in Cheshire. The steel angles anchoring the arches to the footings have been damaged, according to the memorandum.