Salt Lake City crews are wrapping up the third annual “Pothole Palooza,” a weeklong effort to inspect every city-owned road and repair thousands of potholes. The city has filled about 3,500 potholes this year.
“We have a really good crew who are constantly addressing potholes all year round, but during Pothole Palooza, about 50% of our staff is purely focused on potholes, so we pull them off of their other duties,” Julie Crookston said.
The concentrated effort serves multiple purposes for the city’s infrastructure. “One is to address the potholes after the winter, because there’s usually more after our winter,” Crookston said. “This year it’s a bit lighter of a winter, so maybe not as many, but it also preps our roads for the other maintenance we do during the summer season. So whether it’s striping or some surface treatments, if we have those potholes repaired, that maintenance goes smoother.”…