State Department of Transportation officials announced Monday that pipe installation and brush-cutting operations began along Route 230 near Elizabethtown. The work, which will conclude with the repaving of the roadway, is expected to be completed in October.

The work is being done along a 1.7-mile section of Route 230 from just east of the bridge over Conewago Creek to Mill Road. Motorists can expect to encounter lane restrictions on Route 230 on weekdays after 8:30 a.m.

A $972,057 contract for the work was awarded Pennsy Supply, Inc., of Hummelstown, in May. It includes brush cutting, drainage pipe installation, inlet repairs, roadway base repair, removing the top layer of asphalt, paving, guiderail installation and new traffic lines.

The roadway, marked as North Market Street, average 5,934 vehicles daily.