NAUGATUCK — The borough plans to pave 44 roads this year.
The Board of Mayor and Burgesses last week approved a plan to move forward with paving 32 roads this summer and an additional 12 roads this fall. These streets are part of a four-year, multi-million dollar effort to improve roads in Naugatuck.
Public Works Director James Stewart said paving the 44 streets will cost just over $2 million.
Stewart said the money will come from a variety of sources, including $300,000 from the borough’s budget, $600,000 from Eversource Energy in lieu of the company repaving after utility work, $400,000 from the state’s Town Road Aid Grant, $400,000 from the state’s Local Transportation Capital Improvement Program, and $300,000 from a roadwork bond borough residents approved in 2014.
The plan includes about $219,000 to pave Cherry Street and Cherry Street Extension, $116,500 for Spencer Street and $80,000 for Irving Street.
Stewart said the streets that will be worked on this year were chosen by a number of factors, including the overall condition of the road, if roads are grouped together in the same neighborhood, the type of treatment needed, and, most importantly, whether utility work has already been done on the road.
Stewart expects work to begin by the end of this month or the end of August.
The overall paving plan stretches through 2020. Currently, there are 17 streets marked to be done in 2018 and 12 for 2019. In between the two years, there are 16 streets marked as “to be determined.”
Connecticut Water Company is scheduled to do utility work on all the roads marked “to be determined,” Stewart said. Depending on when the water company does the work and if it will pay for paving rather than paving the road itself will decide when these roads are paved, he said.
“We are trying to negotiate a payment rather than a permanent patch. If they patch the road, they may not get done. They are not in that bad of shape. We can work somewhere else. If we get the funding from the water company, they would probably happen in 2018,” Stewart said.
