FREEPORT – Beth Toothaker and her partner, Mike Shea, along with the other resident of Freeport’s Turkey Ridge Lane, Arleen Sigert-Young, are good to go.

Thanks to more than a dozen local companies, the three are free to operate their vehicles on a new bridge that spans Allen Brook – something they haven’t been able to do since Aug. 13, when rain that came down in torrents destroyed the old bridge.

Toothaker began a fundraising campaign that was inching along, but ultimately, it took a young engineer and his company to forge a partnership that got the job done in a week.

When Maine Line Fence of Cumberland installed guardrails on Monday, the three people who had been using ATVs to get over a patched-up road over the brook could safely use their automobiles.

Andy Kittredge, 35, who has been employed at CPM Constructors of Freeport for 10 years, didn’t know any of the residents of Turkey Ridge Lane – a private road – but that didn’t matter.

“When I read in the paper the second time that they still didn’t have the money for a repair, it struck my interest,” Kittredge said last Friday as CPM was finishing up on the road and bridge. “It struck me as a big project for one company to donate. I got CPM’s blessing, and I contacted some companies. It’s an $80,000 project, and I got almost all of it donated.”

Kittredge estimated that Toothaker and Sigert-Young will have to pay about $1,000 apiece to round out the expenses.

Toothaker and Shea were on their way to pick up her daughter as Kittredge spoke.

“I’ll forever be grateful to them,” Toothaker said of the companies that did the good deed. “They did an incredible job. Who’d have thought? We were looking for government help, and it was right next door. The road is much better than it was before.”

Kittredge said that companies brought in 60 feet of 6-foot pipe, 700 yards of fill, 100 yards of gravel, 125 cubic yards of rip rap and 250 linear feet of guard rail.

“We’re going to put some more mulch down and pick up our mess and call it a weekend,” he said, midway through the afternoon. “It feels good to do something for neighbors.”

Kittredge had arranged for 15 companies to donate equipment, labor, cash or materials to replace the culvert and restore the road for the two families. Finally, he was down to the last $4,500 needed to purchase the pipe, which was provided at a steep discount.

“At that point, I turned to Heather Shields, a real estate friend, and she generated donations from colleagues in the realty industry.”

Sigert-Young, walking her dog home, expressed sincere thanks.

“All thanks to Andrew, our savior,” she said. “It’s the way I was raised and to see it actually happening is just amazing.”

Toothaker said that she raised about $1,600 through a gofundme account, and Shields raised another $900 – all of which was funneled into the cost of the project.

Arleen Sigert-Young, out walking her dog, is one of the residents of Turkey Ridge Lane in Freeport who can now drive their vehicles to the other side of Allen Brook, since area companies completed work on a road and bridge over the brook. Rain washed out a portion of the bridge on Aug. 13.