The road has yet to be restored, and it will be at least another month before contractor D.L. Gasser Construction can get in to install a culvert and repair the road.

The New Haven Town Board voted Thursday night to delay the culvert installation until Adams County completed Phase I of its stream restoration work, which is supposed to be done by the end of August.

Chairman Mike Julson said the town needs the rerouting to be done before it can put the culvert in the stream.

Supervisor Brad Seiler said if the county thinks it can get the stream work done in a month, then the best thing for the town to do is wait.

The delay will mean Gasser will have to work quickly once it gets started.

MSA engineer Greg Montgomery said the Department of Natural Resources said workers need to be out of the stream by Sept. 15 so as not to disturb spawning trout that could come through the area.

Montgomery said Gasser shouldn’t need more than three or four days to put the culvert down and place backfill over it.

The stream design work won’t be started until late this month or early next month because bids to complete the work won’t be opened until July 28.

Supervisor Leo Musiedlak was not at Thursday’s meeting, so Seiler and Julson voted to approve the culvert installation delay until the stream work was done.

Adams County Supervisor Glenn Licitar, New Haven’s representative, asked Montgomery if cleaning of the sediment traps downstream of where the dam used to be was part of the project the county was letting for bids. He said they were getting full, and something should be done.

Montgomery said he believed sediment removal from the traps was part of the project.

Another resident at the meeting asked if the town had received its permit yet from the county to install the culvert, since it hadn’t received it as of its special meeting on June 28.

Clerk Berniece Tangney said the town had received the permit.