Report: This Winter's Brought on a Bumper Crop of Potholes in New Canaan

This year’s winter frost has made for an unusually high number of potholes and damaged sidewalks in New Canaan, town officials told the Town Council at a recent meeting, according to a report in the New Canaanite.

Tiger Mann, assistant town public works director, told the board that we haven’t even seen all the damage we’re going to get in town: frost still in the ground combined with the usual spring wet weather should cause even more damage between now and early April.

Some roads are so severely damaged that the DPW will need $200,000 more in the 2015-2016 fiscal year budget to fix them, the Town Board was told.

Overall, this winter has been bad enough that it’s set back the DPW’s schedule for street repairs by three or four years, Mann said, according to the news website’s report.