Potholes Make This An Awful Year for Drivers and the State - New Haven Advocate

Potholes Make This An Awful Year for Drivers and the State - New Haven Advocate: "Potholes Make This An Awful Year for Drivers and the State"


The third cold-weather method is called asphalt recycling. Old asphalt that's scraped up during summertime road repaving projects is stockpiled, then reheated to about 250 degrees in a special recycling machine, and laid down to cover a pothole. Vernon Mayor Jason McCoy says the asphalt recycler his town bought for about $56,000 works “much better” than simple cold patch.