New project to prep, then pave roundabout starts Sunday
August 28, 2020 | By Lisa Scagliotti
The Waterbury roundabout and the main arteries extending out from it will be repaved in September. Photo by Gordon Miller.
More road work is heading Waterbury’s way starting Sunday night and going into September as a new paving project gets underway to include the roundabout and parts of Routes 2 and 100.
The project involves scraping the road surface to prep for paving which is a separate effort from the ongoing work on Main Street, according to state transportation agency officials.
This new work kicks off as the Main Street project will involve significant attention this coming week at the intersection of Stowe Street and Main Street. That key intersection will be closed to through traffic on Monday. Motorists are advised to use Union Street and Bidwell Lane to bypass the intersection.
Workers will be connecting water mains during this time which will also mean water being shut off to residents and businesses in the StoweStreet-Main Street area from about 9 a.m to 2 p.m., according to project officials.
The $21 million Main Street project continues as summer winds down. Workers continue to simultaneously install new water and sewer lines while also installing new curbing and sidewalks in a roughly 1-mile stretch of Main Street. The focus at this time is in the stretch from the railroad bridge by Dac Rowe Park to Rusty Parker Park downtown.
More details are in the weekly Road Work report and on the WaterburyWorks website.
New project to prep, then pave roundabout area
The work area for the new project that will involve the roundabout will stretch from the Main Street project end near the railroad bridge and then extend west on U.S. Route 2 for about a third of a mile. Work on the Rt. 2 stretch will be done during the daytime.
Additional milling and paving will be done from the roundabout north for a tenth of a mile on Route 100 to the area of the Interstate 89 ramp intersections.
Barb Farr, Waterbury’s transportation project liaison, said the timeframe for all of this separate paving work to be completed runs to Oct. 9 to allow for contingencies such as weather or material delays. Contractors are planning for it to be completed sooner, she said.
Project officials said traffic will be affected during overnight hours starting Sunday evening through Wednesday morning, Sept. 2. Work will happen between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Daytime work is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 2-3, between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. Motorists can expect alternating one-way traffic patterns with flaggers in place in the work zones. This initial phase will involve milling to prep the road surface for paving later in the project.