The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) will start a $1.7 million project on Monday, Dec. 10 to build new retaining walls to stabilize and support Fleecy Dale Road in Solebury Township, Bucks County. The project is scheduled to finish in October 2013.

Crews will work until early next fall to build a new retaining wall to replace a failing wall east of the intersection with Fretz Mill Road and to add an additional retaining wall west of Fretz Mill Road.

Fleecy Daley Road will be closed and detoured between Fretz Mill Road and Old Carversville Road starting Dec. 10. A posted detour will take through traffic over Route 32 (River Road), Green Hill Road, Mechanicsville Road and Aquetong Road. Local access will be maintained up to the closure point. Motorists are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the area.

Nimaris Construction of Bath, Northampton County, is the general contractor on the $1,716,563 project that is financed with 100 percent state funds.