Four weeks 800 highway repairs
Cheshire West and Chester Council announced an additional £278,000 funding for road maintenance at the beginning of June. Work starts today (Monday 26) June to repair 800 potholes identified across the borough.
Councillor Karen Shore, Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Environment, Highways and Transport, said:
Schedule
- Week beginning 26 June - Northwich
- Week beginning 3 July - Northwich and Winsford
- Week beginning 10 July - Ellesmere Port, Frodsham, Neston
- Week beginning 17 July - Chester to Malpas
Potholes are caused when water seeps through cracks in the road caused by passing vehicles. During periods of extreme cold, the water freezes and expands. The ice thaws and milder weather dries up all the water and creates a hole under the surface of the road. This gets larger every time water seeps into the hole, freezes and expands.
With the base weakened, the weight of traffic causes the road surface to collapse into the hole that was formed from water freezing, expanding and thawing under the surface. A pothole is formed once the road surface has collapsed; wear from traffic then makes the hole bigger.