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TIME FOR A ROAD TRIP!


Well okay, I guess that’s a bit of a problem. You got me.

Beaver dam breach causes washout of Phillips road

PHILLIPS — A beaver dam that gave way during Tuesday’s rainstorm in Franklin County caused two roads to wash out and closed a portion of Route 4 for about five hours, a Fire Department official said.

Beaver activity in Adley Pond has caused the pond to swell in size, and during a period of heavy rain Tuesday the dam gave way, Deputy Chief Jeremy O’Neil said.

Now there are plenty of public work crews and power companies that when they can’t explain things say “Oh the beaver did it” and we thumb our noses at them. But I looked up the area on google earth and did see an huge swelling pond and what might have been a beaver dam So okay. It’s a fair cop. These things happen.

Luckily Mainers seem to be taking things in stride.

The road was closed for about five hours Tuesday afternoon. It reopened around 6:15 p.m. and is safe to use, although further repairs will be needed, O’Neil said.

“(The beavers) don’t adhere to modern building codes, so when we had a significant amount of water in that body of water, the dam breached,” he said.

The Fire Department helped reroute traffic while the DOT and the Highway Department repaired the road.

I’m sure the beavers would say “Building codes are for sissies! We don’t need no stinking codes“. Or something to that effect,

Amelia is hard at work on the brochure for the festival and I just had to share her stellar map of the park, Don’t you want to go right away? Isn’t this amazing? We are so luck she has been kind enough to help us for a million years,

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2 comments on “TIME FOR A ROAD TRIP!

Art Wolinsky

Amelia is wonderful, but she would have to choose a different subject if it wasn’t for you and your fantastic work.

heidi08

ha! I’m sure she’ll be grateful at getting to do something else! But not yet…

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