WHEELING — Major infrastructure projects made possible by federal funds are getting done in the city of Wheeling, and more improvements are coming in the near future.

In recent years, Wheeling City Council allocated a portion of its federal pandemic relief funding from the American Rescue Plan Act for needed water pollution control and sanitary sewer projects throughout the city. City officials recently reported that two of the major projects from that list of prioritized wastewater system improvements have been finished.

“I’m happy to report that the Gaewood Storm Sewer Project has been completed, as has the Valley View Sanitary Sewer Project,” Wheeling City Manager Robert Herron recently told members of city council. “Both of those were ARPA projects and are now complete.”

Both of those projects began in the fall of 2024. Savage Construction Company of Wheeling was awarded a contract in the amount of $704,000 for the Gaewood Storm Sewer Project in Elm Grove. Cast and Baker Corporation of Cannonsburg, Pa., was awarded a contract in the amount of $1,649,905 for the Valley View Sanitary Sewer Construction.

City leaders recently took action to make substantial amendments to its Annual Action Plans for fiscal years 2021, 2022 and 2024 pertaining to federal funding allocations of Community Development Block Grant money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Officials are consolidating unused portions of funds from various CDBG projects that had been previously approved but either came in under budget or were not completed in order to fund a new paving project for the hilltop neighborhood along Wheeling Heights. A new funding pool of in excess of $300,000 is being created to help pay for this work.

Wheeling City Council earlier this month approved a resolution to make the necessary substantial amendments to the CDBG allocations that will make this new project possible.

“This is for a road resurfacing project on 12th Street and Grandview Avenue,” Herron said. “It’s fairly significant. There is some urgency to this project because these are funds that go back several years, so we want to get them spent as quickly as we possibly can.”

The road resurfacing project for 12th Street and Grandview Avenue went out to bid on Jan. 14, and the bid opening date is scheduled for Feb. 25.

“We’ll hopefully bring that to council in March with construction in April,” Herron said. “So we’re going to move as quickly as we can.”