HAMPDEN - As part of the ongoing work on the Hampden Bridge Bundle Project, the Maine Department of Transportation will be doing overnight closures of Emerson Mill Road at I-95 from Tuesday, September 6th until Tuesday, September 20th. These closures will occur between 7:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. The contractor on this project needs to close the road to remove the temporary bridge structure.
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 happened 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 occurred at the Exit 180 off-ramp on Cold Brook Road over I-95.
All eight new bridges are now open and carrying traffic. Northbound bridges were substantially completed last year. Southbound bridges and the rehabilitation of Cold Brook bridge were substantially completed this year.
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.