The borough’s $14.8 million downtown infrastructure project is scheduled to be completed by Oct. 15, Mayor N. Warren “Pete” Hess said. The project involves upgrading Church and Maple streets, the Maple Street bridge and the intersection near Water Street. A little more than $9.2 million of the funding will come from the borough’s American Rescue Plan Act money. The board in 2022 hired Kleinfelder Northeast, a national engineering firm with an office in Rocky Hill, for the final design of sewer upgrades and streetscape designs for Church and Maple streets. The firm is collaborating with Richter & Cegan, a landscape architecture and planning firm from Avon, for the streetscape portion. Workers should be laying the first coat of asphalt on Church Street in June before they move their work to the town Green. This will be followed by Maple Street and lastly the Maple Street bridge, Hess said.
