News tagged: Roads and Sidewalks

Mountain Road Closed

Starting mid-July for approximately 10 weeks.

Closed to through traffic (It will be open for fair week)

Those hiking up Blue Hill Mountain will we need to find an alternate starting point.

This serves as a notification that the Blue Hill Falls Bridge, Route 175 over the Salt Pond Outlet, will be closing on Monday, November 6th and will reopen on or about Wednesday, November 22nd. Traffic will be detoured to Routes 175 and 172.

Falls Bridge Road will be closed near Wharf Road on Tuesday, September 26, while MDOT installs new underground piping.

The Mountain Road will be closed immediately for an emergency culvert repair. Please use alternate route.

The Maine DOT roadwork in the Blue Hill Village will start up again with, some night work will start at about 6:30pm Sunday the 26th and last for about a week in the roundabout area with some night striping of the completed road areas and some other day work in various places.

Other road lines, some of which the town has done, crosswalks and some revised signage for them will be coming soon. There will be some minor location adjustments and permanent crosswalk signage in key locations including one blinking crosswalk sign like on Tenny Hill when we can get that completed.

Main St. Paving completion – Pleasant St to the Fairgrounds will start up in late July. The bad section near the Post Office has been patched.

South Street Sidewalk: Work will begin just after the 4th of July and go for 6 weeks. The work will start at the end of the sidewalk by First Bank and extend just past the Bay School. ALL of the work will be on that side of the road except a 2 day (night only) move of the flashing lights near the school crosswalk.

East Blue Hill Road Ditching and culvert work in underway. Will hopefully address heavy rain and winter drainage issues that have caused a lot of thick ice in the last few years.

Falls Bridge Road – Repaving starts towards the end of July!

The Town of Blue Hill winter storm parking ban is in effect from November 1 through May 1. Parking on the street is prohibited during storms and inclement weather.

Please refer to this note from MaineDOT regarding mailbox policies.

The Town of Blue Hill is accepting plow bids for the 2021-2022 season. Bids should be submitted to the Town Hall no later than September 1, 2021. Please mail bids to 18 Union St. Blue Hill, Me 04614 to be considered.

Click here to view the bid information.

For more information, please call 374-2281 or email the municipal clerk.

The Maine State DOT will be paving Route 15 from Grindleville Rd to Pleasant Street. (These sections are known as Mines Rd. and Tenney Hill).

Here are some things you need to know.

• The job is planned to start on August 9th and run to ‘mid’ August. We do not have any more details other than that at this point.

• There will be no planned detour for this job. Instead, the DOT is planning one lane alternating traffic flow.

• Night paving is expected for the roundabout only.

• The current work on Tenney Hill, per the DOT, will be finished in time for this job to start.

• Crosswalk signs that are currently on Main St. will be removed so the paving crew can prep and pave the area. Once this is finished, the signs will be placed back where they belong.

Please plan you travel times accordingly. If you have any questions regarding the work, please call the Maine State DOT at 207-624-3000.