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Wells Acres residents demand full road reconstruction; town says sewer repairs led to overlay
Summary
A resident told FarmingtonTown Council it was promised full road reconstruction in 2018; public works officials said a sewer infiltration project led to trenching and a mill-and-overlay, not a full rebuild, and staff pledged targeted spring repairs and clearer communications going forward.
At the Town of Farmingtoncouncil meeting on Jan. 13, 2026, resident Joanne White asked the council to honor a 2018 promise of a full road reconstruction for Wells Acres and presented a petition signed by 56 neighbors asking for a comprehensive project.
"We are not interested in the town patching our roadways. We want what was promised to us in 2018, a complete reconstruction of our roads," White said during public comment, adding she plans to file assessment appeals and is investigating possible court action if the town does not provide the reconstruction her neighborhood expects.
Town staff and the director of public works, Russ Arnold, told the council the work in Wells Acres began as a sanitary sewer infiltration and inflow remediation project. Arnold…
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