Staff photo by David Leaming
A giant jigsaw puzzle of ice is broken up and moved along below the Fairfield-Benton bridges on the Kennebec River in March of 2003.

Mike McRae of the Maine Department of Transportation said the support piers of the old and new bridge contributed to inhibiting the ice downstream. Work was being done to remove the old piers.

Ice jams and flooding are again a worry this spring due to the heavy snowfalls.

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