March 7, 2022 – With winter weather winding down, you may notice city crews doing pothole repairs.
The city has two crews out on a daily basis filling potholes. This time of year, they can have up to eight crews working in different areas filling them. The crews will work the priority streets first because they will have more traffic on them, then turn their attention to the residential neighborhood streets.
Typically, a concrete street will have more potholes due to moisture freezing and causing the concrete to pop out. In the summer, when the weather warms up, the city will fill the potholes and then use an oil and rock sealer to spray over them. This is to keep moisture from getting into the street base. The city has found this to be very helpful in keeping the potholes from returning.
With that in mind, if you see trucks out working, make sure to yield and give the workers ample space.
“Filling potholes can be a very dangerous job, so we ask the traveling public to slow down and use caution when they see a crew working,” said Byron Bowman, Operations Supervisor for the City of Decatur. “It is a never-ending job and we are doing our best to make our streets smoother and safer to drive on.”
