The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) has built two new footbridges at the Bonyun Preserve on Westport Island.

The work was completed during the week of Sept. 12 by volunteers from the island’s conservation commission and students from Bowdoin College. The students were participating in Bowdoin’s “Common Good Day” initiative, during which members of the college volunteer their efforts for local projects. The participants in the initiative can be students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of Bowdoin, according to the description on the college’s website.

One of the two new bridges has a 20-foot span across a stream and links a newly acquired section of the preserve to the original section. The new 6.7-acre parcel, acquired in July 2016, is the former Barbara Delario property. With grant funding assistance from a local foundation, the land trust acquired the property for $70,000. With the addition of the new parcel, the preserve will total almost 75 acres.

According to information provided by Dennis Dunbar, president of KELT, the new parcel protects 1140 feet of Mill Cove and an existing popular trail from Junction Road onto the preserve.

The other new bridge is 15 feet long and crosses a Mill Cove Trail stream.

The original property was acquired as a donation in 2002 from Bill and Gene Bonyun.