BRUNSWICK

Union Street is quiet again for now, but on Monday, crews will be out there again, working to repair a sewer line.

Ray Labbe & Sons Inc. closed Union Street between McKeen and Page streets on Wednesday. That closure lasted into early Thursday morning in order for crews to continue sewer repairs at 103 Union Street.

The street reopened to traffic Thursday, although the repair could not be completed.

The work is complicated by the fact that the sewer main lies more than 16 feet under the middle of the street.

According to Brunswick Public Works Director John Foster, contractors were restricted in what they could do because of utility lines buried near the trench in which they were working.

“ They tried to dig, but groundwater was coming into the trench,” said Foster on Thursday. “There’s some safety concerns, and they don’t want to break a water main. They’re looking for an alternate method to get sewer service to 103 Union.”

The only evidence that work had been done in the area Thursday at noon was a missing piece of asphalt.

The Brunswick Sewer District will consist of reroute the pipe connecting 103 Union to the sewer main along with another excavation, according to Foster. That will necessitate closing again a section of Union Street on Monday.

In an interview, Foster said the street will be closed for an additional day at a date to be determined to repave the area.

A recording on Thursday noted that the phone number to the Brunswick Sewer District was temporarily unavailable.