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Potholes in North Northamptonshire
Northants Telegraph
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21/10/2024
Demonstration of new method of repairing potholes by Roadmender Asphalt in Oundle for North Northamptonshire Council and Kier Highways
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I'm Councillor Matthew Binney. I'm the Executive Member for Highways, Travel and Assets at North
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Northamptonshire Council. We're here today in Owndall to see a demonstration of a relatively
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new product to the marketplace. It has gone through some testing and development and I very
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much feel that now is the time for us to be looking at this product. The way that this product differs
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from the kind of traditional pothole repair method that everybody would kind of be used to
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seeing around our roads in North Northamptonshire. In fact traditionally what happens is you cut out
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the pothole around the pothole, you remove all of the material, you then back fill it with new
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material and then also have to seal around the top with something that is called over banding.
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The new product is made up of 60% recycled material which is actually made up of reused
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truck vehicle tyres and so therefore it's got also a slightly rubberised texture to it.
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Now what happens that's different when you carry out a repair using this material, you don't cut
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out the damaged area. What you actually do is you back fill it with new material after having
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swept out any loose material called detritus. You then use the new product over the top
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and it completely seals the area which means that you don't have to use over banding so there's not
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the possibility of that failing and of course there's also a reduced risk of the likes of
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water ingress into the area. One of the other things that we get is quite a complaint in North
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Northamptonshire from residents and it's understandable is that of course when our
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highways contractor go out to complete a repair a lot of the road surface surrounding it has already
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started to break up but that road surface has not yet met that threshold criteria to carry out a
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repair to it and of course the frustration from residents is that then in 6-12 months time
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that area then breaks up itself and requires our contractors to come out and carry out a repair.
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What the new product allows our contractor or will allow our contractor to do is treat the whole
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area which puts a weatherproof seal all over that area and therefore should stop that breakup of the
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surrounding area. Far too much of our time is taken up with potholes. Of course the problem
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with potholes is that we are as an authority like all authorities up and down the country
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we are chasing our tail and that is what we are doing and it's become all time consuming whereas
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what we really need to be focused on is we need to be focused on road resurfacing because of course
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that is the long-term solution. Pothole repair is a short-term solution.
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Now what this product will potentially do is give us that breathing room.
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