Maine Department of Transportation workers Dave Ferland, left, and Lenny Sioch hang plastic tarp frames with colleagues Tuesday on a platform beneath the bridge on Route 41, spanning Mill Stream in Vienna. The workers were erecting a winter enclosure to commence repairing posts, rails and wing walls on the bridge, according to Ferland, the supervisor. The crew should be finished fixing the span in about six weeks.

Augusta Public Works employee Matt Jackson directs a truck to pour snow Thursday on the winter dump located on the banks of the Kennebec River, on the east side of Augusta. Workers were collecting snow from city schools and relocating it to the hill that rises to a height just below the catwalk underneath Memorial Bridge. The hill isn’t as high as it has been in past winters, workers said, and usually melts by the end of spring.