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Topeka Capital-Journal
by Corey JonesCrevices. Super holes. Craters.
And that is just what an official in the city of Topeka's street division was calling them.
On Saturday afternoon, James Lopez was standing a block east of S.W. 21st and MacVicar on an uneven surface of ice, partially melted by the re-emergence of the sun's warmth. A crew patched potholes along water-logged S.W. 21st as he attempted to find an appropriate label for some of Topeka's larger "monsters" that are plaguing its streets …
Another change is the use of a product called EZ Street. The city began experimenting with it in 2010, Raines said. The product is supposed to be a cold patch that is permanent. The cold patching material the city previously used wasn't permanent and holes were dug up and filled with a permanent hot patch once warmer weather arrived.
"We already recognize that some of those have held," Raines said of the holes filled with the new product.
The cost of EZ Street is higher, Raines said, but if crews won’t have to dig up holes each year they have already patched during the winter months, it becomes a more cost effective and permanent solution.
Ron Raines,
Director of Street Maintenance
Topeka, Kansas
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