The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation District 5 announced work scheduled to begin today to remediate a recent rock slide along US 209/Mauch Chunk Street in Mahoning Township, Carbon County is postponed until Wednesday.

The contractor’s work crew has been delayed traveling to the area and will begin work Wednesday.

The project entails full closures of Route 209 north and south on weekdays (Mondays through Fridays) between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. During these full closures, southbound 209 traffic will be detoured on Packerton Dam Road, Hemlock Drive, Route 902, South 9th Street, Route 443, Route 209, Harrity Road, Fairyland Road, Long Run Road, Maury Road, and Route 903.

A single lane will be open on Route 209 north and south weekdays from 2 p.m. to 9 a.m. and from 2 p.m. Fridays through 9 a.m. Mondays.

Workers will remove fallen rock from the roadway, scale back and remove additional rock from the mountain, install mesh netting to help prevent future rocks from falling, mill and pave US 209 north in the work area, and perform other ancillary work.

On Sept. 8, multiple large rocks slid off the side of the mountain alongside Route 209 between Race Street and Oak Avenue. Since then the two-lane section of Route 209 north going up Flagstaff Mountain (Mansion House Hill) has been reduced to a single lane. When this work is complete the second lane on Route 209 north will re-open.

This section of Route 209 has an average daily traffic volume of 9,814 vehicles.

New Enterprise Stone & Lime Inc. of New Enterprise, is the general contractor on the $354,103 emergency project that is expected to be complete by Oct. 27. For more information on projects occurring or being bid this year, those made possible by or accelerated by the state transportation funding plan (Act 89), or those on the department’s Four and Twelve Year Plans, visit www.projects.penndot.gov.