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City Dealing With Bumper Crop Of Potholes

Columbus Public Service department officials expect to see even more potholes thanks to the recent extreme temperature fluctuations. 

City Council public service commitee chair Emmanuel Remy gave an update at Monday night's council meeting.  

"We received around 26-hundred pothole requests from the first of the year.  The department has closed roughly 2450,  around 94%.  They've also proactively investigated and found around a thousand other areas they needed to fill.  And so when we talk about service requests it's not just one pothole, it could be whole slew of them around one particular area, the number is probably closer to 20,000 as the number that we've filled so far."

Remy says Columbus drivers who see a pothole should report it by calling the city's 311 service line.  
 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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