Hundreds of potholes have been filled in and around Spokane
SPOKANE, Wash. — Potholes continue to be the talk of the town for local drivers.
Earlier this week, 4 News Now checked in with the City of Spokane, who said they’ve filled about 200 potholes so far this season. There are crews all throughout the region dealing with this same issue.
From the highways to on and off-ramps, it’s not just paved roads Spokane County is dealing with; there are potholes on gravel roads as well. Because the cold mix they use is temporary, sometimes crews have to go back, refill and continue the cycle while we wait for warmer weather.
Potholes here, potholes there, it seems as if Spokane drivers are noticing potholes everywhere.
See a hole, fill it up. That’s what’s happening all around the region.
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is filling potholes on our local highways. Spokane Valley’s winter crew is out maintaining streets. They’ve patched around 100 potholes this winter so far. Spokane County working on both paved and gravel roads. In all, hundreds of potholes have been reported and filled throughout area.
Mother Nature is mostly to blame.
“Freeze, thaw. That’s kind of the biggest problem, especially when we get melting snow. It gets into the roadway, gets underneath, it freezes overnight. The expansion of the ice and it freezing to the roadway. That is what gives us potholes,” Ryan Overton said, WSDOT.
Since November, WSDOT has filled more than 100 potholes.
“We roughly, each winter, use 30,000 tons of cold mix to fill potholes a year,” Overton said.
Cold mix is what all crews are using this time of year, as opposed to the hot mix during the summer to fill potholes.
“Hot mix asphalt is 300-plus degrees when we lay it,” said Kent Reitmeir, a highway maintenance technician for WSDOT.
Hot mix doesn’t pair well when the roads are wet and temperatures fluctuate.
“Higher volume roads first, and then we work our way down,” said Andy Schenk, maintenance operations manager for Spokane County.
The crews filling the potholes are the same faces you see plowing. When there’s no snow on the ground, they’re driving around looking for spots to repair on the streets.
“Snow and ice control is our number one priority right now. During the winter. But we are used to this, as soon as we come out of that, then we put people in the trucks to do the pothole patching,” Schenk said.
Spokane County said the asphalt plants for hot mix typically open around early April, depending on weather. Hot mix really only works when we don’t have moisture in the roads.
If you need to report a pothole in Coeur d’Alene, you can send them an email with where the pothole is to JREICHERT@cdaid.org or you can call 208-769-2235. For Kootenai County, they have an online form you can fill it out to report a pothole that you can find HERE. To report a pothole in Spokane County, call 509-477-2547.
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