CITY OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. — The City of Tonawanda has deployed a new weapon in its never ending battle with potholes.
Using $70,000 in Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) funding from New York State, the city purchased a new Stepp SMMT Asphalt recycler which takes millings and re-emulsifies them with an asphalt rejuvenating product to make a hot mix pothole patch.
Like many municipalities Tonawanda has previously relied on cold patch to try and keep up with potholes at this time of year, as the more sturdy hot patch isn’t available until the asphalt mills re-open later in the spring…