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POTHOLE PATROL

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MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR

Dear Madisonian:
   Welcome to the Pothole Patrol homepage. We created this website to give you an easy way to inform us of potholes in your neighborhood. You can also learn more about what the City is doing to address this issue, both now and in the future.

Sincerely,
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz
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REPORT A POTHOLE

Please determine the street address and/or the nearest cross-street of where the pothole is located.

  • Report a Pothole
  • Call the Streets Department
    East Side:  (608) 246-4532
    West Side: (608) 266-4681
    TEXT NET:  (866) 704-2315

City Crews Concerned About High Numbers of Potholes During Spring

Due to the colder than normal January weather, where the average temperature was 7.2 degrees below the normal average January temperatures, frost levels in City of Madison streets have reached depths of 4.5 feet. This deep layer of frost in the streets is causing pavement to rise at expansion joints and where there is full depth pavement cracks.

These high numbers of frost heaves on both our concrete and blacktop streets could result in numerous potholes forming at areas where the frost has caused the pavement to heave and separate.

Potholes form when water, whether from melting snow, rain or frost thawing gets into the cracks in the pavement and cause the road base to shift and develop voids just under the pavement. When this occurs, the weight of vehicles causes the pavement to crumble causing potholes.

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HOW POTHOLES OCCUR

Potholes are a fact of life in Wisconsin. Cycles of freezing and thawing and moisture erode the road base which creates pavement stress. Stressed pavement and traffic combine to cause potholes.
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the pothole response

Weather permitting, it is the goal of the Pothole Patrol to respond to pothole reports, no later than the next working day. If weather is bad, it could take longer to get the pothole patched.

Mayor Dave filling potholes
Mayor Dave patching potholes

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Pothole Patrol
Madison's Pothole patrol has filled 66,524 potholes since the first of the year.

2008 POTHOLES FILLED

In 2008, Madison's Pothole Patrol filled 155,487 potholes!
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WHERE TO WATCH
FOR POTHOLES
Potholes can can pop up anywhere. Most potholes are found on concrete streets.
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