HIGH POINT, N.C. — Cities across the Triad are ramping up pothole repairs following recent winter storms, which brought ice, snow and hazardous driving conditions that damaged roadways.
In Winston-Salem, crews applied 2,800 tons of road salt and more than 500,000 gallons of brine to keep priority streets passable. Officials say the plowing, scraping and rapid temperature changes contributed to new potholes on city streets.
“This is one of the most severe winter weather events that we’ve seen in in the last decade,” said Director of Traffic Field Operations Keith Huff, “So obviously the amount of ice that we had, the duration that that was on the roads and the amount of salt and plowing we had to to do to clear the roads, obviously this is going to be severe as far as the amount of potholes, road irregularities, if you will, that that we’re seeing.”…