City experimenting with new method to fix potholes
Posted Feb 17, 2015 07:06:27 AM.
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As city crews work to clear up the streets from our latest visit from Old Man Winter, another problem is brewing underneath the ice and snow.
The city is facing a backlog of potholes, but a new product they’re experimenting with is speeding up the repairs.
Aquaphalt uses water as a binding agent to stick to the pre-existing asphalt, and so far, Halifax superintendent of streets and sidewalks Don Pellerine said the experiment is generating good results.
“A lot of times in the past we would fill a pothole and the next time we plowed it, we would plow the patch material out and expose the hole again,” Pellerine.
Pellerine said with the new method, crews don’t have to keep going back to repair the same potholes, and problem spots can be fixed in minutes.
He said his crews have been tackling the pothole problem since the end of the Christmas season.
“We’ve filled about 750 potholes, and we have about 880 in our backlog that we know are there,” said Pellerine.
He said the city is usually able to fix 200-300 potholes a week.
