Wet winter blamed for pothole repair backlog on Lancashire roads

Preston City Council savings depend on how interest rates affect Animate borrowing plansLancashire County Council’s cabinet member for highways says the authority is experiencing “significant and unprecedented reports of structural defects” across its road network.

However, the county council did manage to repair 99 percent of defects assessed as needing ‘emergency’ attention within a four-hour target time. “We are catching up now and this last week has seen a significant amount of additional activity. So you’ll find over the next few weeks, as the weather dries up, we will be catching up with that backlog,” County Cllr Swarbrick said.

The injection technique has been used on Lancashire’s roads since 2012 and involves blasting carriageway cavities with compressed air to remove any debris and then spray-coating the surface of the hole with a bitumen emulsion before blasting asphalt into it. The process is self-compacting, meaning it needs no additional bedding down.

“The groundwater has actually been coming up from the bottom of the potholes and lifting the repairs out – and there’s nothing we can do to stop that, we just have to keep going back to make them good.

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