In the last three months we have:
✔️ repaired over 25,000 potholes
✔️undertaken over 24,000m2 of heavy patching (section repairs) – that’s equivalent to almost 20 Olympic sized swimming pools
✔️graded over 110 km of unsealed roads

🚧 Road works continue this week to fill potholes (temporary repairs to reduce safety hazards) and longer-term road repairs which help prevent potholes from occurring, including heavy patching (section repairs) or road renewals (whole road rehabilitation):

This week, some of the road work being undertaken includes:
👷‍♀️ Tuggerawong, Tuggerawong Rd (road renewal) 
👷 Kulnura, George Downes Drive (heavy patching)
👷‍♂️Lower Mangrove, Popran Road, (unsealed road grading)
👷‍♂️ Mangrove Mountain, Wisemans Ferry Road (heavy patching)
👷‍♀️ Umina, Sydney Ave (road renewal) 
👷 Gorokan (potholes) 
👷‍♂️  Killarney Vale (potholes) 
👷‍♀️ Lemon Tree (potholes)

👷‍♂️ Point Clare, Tascott, Koolewong (potholes) 
👷‍♂️ Saratoga, Davistown (potholes) 
👷‍♀️Mangrove Mountain area (potholes)
👷‍♀️ Dooralong (potholes)

🤔 It’s easy to assume someone has already reported a pothole but that may not be the case.
☎️ Please report potholes or specific maintenance or safety concerns to Council, through our online Customer Service Centre, or by calling 4306 7900 during business hours. We’ll then investigate and respond.   

FAQs

How are road repairs prioritised?

Road repairs are prioritised by level of risk and traffic volumes, with higher traffic roads generally requiring attention first.  

For workflow and cost efficiencies, repair work may be undertaken on several roads in the same suburb around a priority site.

Scheduling of road repairs requires a flexible approach as new issues can be identified or reported at any time, and weather can impact which works are able to be carried out – which is why plans are adjusted each week. 

How do you manage and prevent potholes?

Council has short, medium, and long-term strategies to manage and prevent potholes. 

Pothole patching is a temporary solution to reduce safety hazards, and used to isolated defects in the road network.  It is also the only solution that can be underway during wet weather. These types of repairs are designed to ensure it is kept safe for traffic until such time as a more permanent restoration or resurfacing can occur.

During dry weather more permanent pothole repairs and other solutions can be applied. Heavy patch repairs provide a medium-term solution where a section of the road is treated. 

For the longer term, renewal works are undertaken which include rehabilitation and resurfacing of the pavement. Upgrade works, which include street drainage, kerb and gutter and new road pavement can also be undertaken however it is costly and creates new infrastructure adding to future maintenance.

Why do potholes occur?

As the road pavement naturally ages, cracks occur in the surface. Moisture and water seeps through these cracks into the base material beneath the road pavement. The vibration and/or the weight of the traffic causes this wet base material to settle or shift, forming a cavity. With nothing under the road surface to support it, the pavement will fall away creating a pothole.