HAMPDEN - As part of the ongoing work on the Hampden Bridge Bundle Project, the Maine Department of Transportation will be closing the Emerson Mill Road at I-95 during some overnight hours next week. Road closures will occur, as needed between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. between the night of Sunday, July 31st and the morning of Saturday, August 6th.
The Hampden Bridge Bundle Project involves rebuilding eight bridges and rehabilitating a ninth bridge along a four-mile stretch of I-95 in Hampden. The eight bridge replacements are happening on both the northbound and southbound sides of the interstate at four sites between Exits 174 and 180. Three of these bridge pairs cross the Souadabscook Stream and one pair crosses Emerson Mill Road and the Central Maine & Quebec Railway. The one bridge rehabilitation involved with this project is happening at the Exit 180 off-ramp on Cold Brook Road over I-95.
The four bridge replacements on the northbound side I-95 were substantially completed last year. Northbound traffic has been using the four new interstate bridges since then. Three new southbound bridges are already open. The fourth new southbound bridge, the Emerson Mill Road bridge, is scheduled to be opened in early September. Rehabilitation of the Cold Brook Bridge was substantially completed last week.
The contractor on the Hampden Bridge Bundle Project is Cianbro Corporation. The contract amount is $44.8 million. The estimated completion date of the project is November 30th.