CHESAPEAKE — On Jan. 15, the village of Chesapeake will solicit bids for a long-sought-after rehabilitation project in North Huntington Heights.

For the past two years, the village has tried to get funding to do work on the roadway that goes up to a residential area of the village that has been significantly damaged by slips. There are about 120 houses there.

Multiple rainfalls have been cited as the cause for the roadway slides.

“The road is gone and we had to move it onto private property,” Chesapeake Mayor Dick Gilpin said. “There is a back road going up there, but it’s narrow.”

In June the village was notified that it would receive $415,251 in emergency funding from the Ohio Public Works Commission. That is expected to cover approximately 90 percent of the project, both construction and design.

In August, the village hired E. L. Robinson Engineering in Ironton to do the engineering work on the roadway.

The plan is to put in a concrete and steel retaining wall in order to put back the 300-foot roadway, which will then be asphalted.

The village has to come up with 10 percent of the project and recently asked the county commissioners and Union Township Trustees for funds.

“If they would partner on that,” Gilpin said. “We will find out after we get the bid out.”

The bidding process is expected to take between four to six weeks.

“Hopefully, we will have them in by March,” Gilpin said. “The project should be completed by November.”