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"Pothole alert.”
It’s that time of year again;-time when the annual freeze-thaw cycle turns pavement into potholes. “Our preliminary indications are that we’re going to have a pretty bad spring breakup, both on the hard surfaced and gravel roads,” rei ported resident highway engineer Don Askew this week.
“We had an usually wet fall and then a deep freeze in sub-zero weather. I don’t know how far the freeze line goes down. The water penetrated into the pavement, froze and came popping back out — again and again and again. We're going to have fun this spring!” he added. “It looks like we may have the worst breakup we've had in four or five years.”
Where to find money for unanticipated maintenance projects in a continually shrinking highway budget may also be difficult, according to Askew. “Money is always a problem — just like it was (for road clearance) with all these ice storms.’’ he added.
Payment for both snow removal and road repairs comes out of the same maintenance pot. Askew said. “If the snow would stop right now. today, we'd be in great shape but we’ve got four or five more weeks to worry
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