Warsaw street department employees are working to make sure potholes are repaired in the city. Kosciusko County workers meanwhile are in the process of identifying and patching potholes in the county’s 1,100 miles of roadway. Lacy Francis, Warsaw street superintendent, said the street department had two trucks out with employees who assessed and filled potholes in the city Monday. “This weather is the worst thing that could have happened, especially when we got rain over the weekend and then freezing and thawing that is making potholes appear,” Francis said. He said the employees checked all of the city’s emergency route streets first for potholes. Those include Fort Wayne, Main, Center, Market and Smith streets and Winona Avenue. Parker Street and Sunset Drive, as well as Ranch Road, also were checked for potholes. “We want to make the roads safe and try to get them repaired,” Francis said. After emergency routes, the department’s employees will make repairs to the city’s side streets. Francis said one of the major priorities for repairs was on North Lake Street. “That will be a big priority getting that done. You can’t be swerving away from a pothole on a curve,” Francis said. Street department employees made repairs to potholes on Provident Drive and Springhill Road Monday afternoon. This is an emergency route and major road that goes to Kosciusko Community Hospital. Francis said there should be enough money in the city’s supply category of its maintenance budget to make needed repairs. He was unable to provide a timetable of when the repairs will be completed. Scott Tilden, Kosciusko County highway superintendent, said this morning that his department is keeping up with potholes that have appeared in different spots all over the county. He said the problem isn’t too widespread, and added that the county still has enough salt and sand to last the rest of the winter. “Of course, when you have cold weather with lots of moisture and it begins to thaw out, that’s a good recipe for potholes,” he remarked. “We’re fixing them as they’re reported to us ... We’re trying to keep up on the ones we do have, it’s not terrible yet.”
