Salt Lake City has already repaired almost 19,000 potholes this year, and crews are racing to repair 6,000 more this week caused by heavy snowfall this winter.
SALT LAKE CITY — Erick Ferguson watched as a team of construction workers poured a hot sealant mixture into a pair of potholes on Fremont Avenue in front of him Tuesday afternoon.
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall stood a half block away, using a tamper to help another team fill a pothole near the road's intersection at Richards Street. These are a few of the about 6,000 potholes that the division is scheduled to repair this week alone, on top of the nearly 19,000 potholes that the city has already repaired over the past few months, she explained.
The event was originally scheduled to launch a few weeks ago, but the seemingly never-ending winter delayed the first of what Mendenhall would like to see as an annual tradition. Salt Lake City alone has received 87.3 inches of snow since October,"It's those very snowstorms whose water we need so desperately that's also making our roads incredibly difficult to navigate," Mendenhall said.
But it's likely that there are more potholes this spring than in previous years. This winter's cycle created new potholes while existing potholes worsened, especially from the stress of vehicle traffic in the winter, said Julie Crookston, deputy director of operations for the Salt Lake City Department of Public Services.
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