The project to rehabilitate a section of Lower Miamisburg Road in Miamisburg is on track, with the latest sign being the installation of approximately 200 vertical piers.
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About the only sticking point remaining is the same one that has caused the nearly yearlong closure -- the weather.
The repair project, which focuses on a section between South Union Road and Dee Avenue, could be completed by summer if the weather cooperates.
City Manager Keith Johnson said crews were able to get some work done at the site during the first week of March, starting with clearing trees, removing guardrail sections and the planting of the piers, which have to be put in place to stop the hillside from deteriorating any further.
The rain caused the hill slide in the first place.
Tuesday night, WHIO-TV's Sean Cudahy spoke with Johnson and residents who have had to deal with the lack of access along Lower Miamisburg Road since it was closed in April 2018.
"It's mainly water, the saturation, the heavy rains," city Engineer Bob Stanley said, explaining the project has been slow to reach any kind of finish line because of the planning that has been involved.
"If we just went back and just tried to repair this like a normal roadway repair, it's going to continue to do the same thing," he said.
We will update this story as information becomes available.