The plan is to keep filling potholes until snowfall with hot mix asphalt paid for by Domino’s Pizza.
Today Havre city construction workers began filling dips and potholes in one of the city’s most worn streets, the portion of 12th Avenue between First and Second streets. Havre City Public Works Director Dave Peterson, who was on site, said that street is not the only one that will get attention today.
Paving will continue for as long as the weather allows. He expects street work to go until February, when snow will start coming down, Peterson joked.
The world’s largest pizza chain, Domino’s, announced August 29, it would be providing the city of Havre with a $5,000 grant to repair its potholes. Domino’s, which has a store in Havre, earlier this summer asked its customers to nominate on social media communities where they delivered pizzas that could use help in getting potholes repaired. A total of 137,000 people nominated 15,275 different zip codes in 50 states. Apparently 59501 got lots of nominations. It was one of 10 winners.
“It’s good that people took the time to vote for Havre,” Peterson had said.
Although it doesn’t seem like a lot of money, given the derelict condition of most of Havre’s streets, that money can go a long way. “Five thousand doesn’t seem like a whole lot, but I can get a whole lot of potholes filled,” Peterson said today.
The money saved because of the grant will go toward repairs beginning spring of 2019, Peterson said.
Domino’s money pays strictly for materials, hot mix bought from Havre Sand & Gravel Inc., Peterson said. The workers and equipment doing the work are already paid by and owned by the city.
The truck that dumped the asphalt today had about $400 in hot mix. And not all the streets are as bad as that segment of 12th Avenue, so in some areas the asphalt will go further, Peterson said.
Potholes have been a constant complaint of Havre drivers, but twice voters have turned down multi-million proposals aimed at solving the problem, the latest $15-million proposal.
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