Detours Set, Heavy Delays Expected for 2-Week Paving Project in Long Valley

One of Long Valley’s most heavily traveled roads is about to get a much-needed makeover, but is going to come with its share of traffic headaches.

Beginning on or around August 6, a 2.2-mile portion of West Mill Road will be milled and paved, expected to last two weeks depending on weather, Lt. Doug Compton said.

West Mill Road is locally patrolled but county-owned, so the work is being funded by capital improvement projects approved by the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Paving will stretch from the center of Long Valley – the intersection of Fairmount and Schooley’s Mountain Roads – heading west to Beacon Hill Road.

The first phase of the project will be section repairs, and traffic will be reduced to one lane of alternating travel.

Once that part of the project is complete, all eastbound traffic will be diverted onto Beacon Hill Road, to West Valley Brook Road, and out to Fairmount Road as part of a detour, Compton said. The length of the detour is roughly five miles.

Construction is expected to last two weeks and will take place between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The road will be reopened to all traffic at the end of the workday.

Top Line Construction Corporation of Somerville will be conducting the repairs, and local police are expecting a large amount of traffic and congestion in the area.