OXFORD — Traffic on Pleasant Street, from Route 26 to the village, will be disrupted for several more months as contractors continue installing sewer lines.

“There’s lots to go,” project foreman Brian Delano of St. Laurent and Son Excavation of Lewiston said.

The company’s eight-month contract expires in December.

While Sargent Corp. of Stillwater is working on the Route 26 lines, St. Laurent is responsible for the 5,300-foot stretch of Pleasant Street and a small section of King Street, where sewer cross sections were laid in the road last week.

A pumping station is being constructed on Pleasant Street, just before the bridge over the Little Androscoggin River.

Wastewater will run to that pumping station and one at the former Robinson woolen mill on King Street before it goes to the $23.7 million wastewater treatment plant at Routes 26 and 121 in Welchville village, Delano said.

A similar pumping station has been constructed at Oxford Plains Speedway on Route 26.

While the work on King Street up to Pismo Beach is almost complete, Delano said there is still a lot of work to be done on Pleasant Street.

Although the trenches for lines along Route 26 had to go as deep as 22 feet to ensure a gravity-fed flow, the deepest section of Pleasant Street is 14 feet.

Oxford is in the last phase of a multimillion-dollar wastewater treatment system, designed to meet an expected population and business surge.

Wastewater will go through a series of filters before being sterilized by ultraviolet light at the treatment plant and released into the Little Androscoggin River. 

Selectmen were expected to discuss the sewer connection incentive program at their meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, at the Town Office on Pleasant Street.

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