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Thanks for this posting. Yeah, it’s really bad turning from Dartmouth to Evergreen. Really hard to avoid the potholes!

When will the town be coming to fix these? Has one received an update?

Can someone please respond here? When will these potholes be fixed? It is a safety issue with all the children walking to school as well as a danger to our cars. This is not ok!

Hopefully we will have a crew starting in that area tomorrow

This was posted on another pothole report in our Evergreen neighborhood. It refers to a petition. I am certainly interested in organizing one if one isn't already in the works, but don't have experience on public works so would want to team up with someone else who may have more local/legal knowledge. I know there are patches made, but they just come apart every year and this refers to "installation and construction of drainage if necessary". See below:

The Director of Public Works may make repairs to private ways providing that an Annual or Special Town Meeting determines that the repairs are required by public necessity and convenience and a majority of the abutters petition for such repairs to be made and that the way has been open to public use for a period of six (6) years. Such repairs shall include the installation and construction of drainage if necessary, and the filling of holes in the sub-surface of such ways and repairs to the surface materials thereof. Materials for such repairs shall, where practical, be the same as or similar to those used for existing surfaces of such ways but may include surfacing the ways with bituminous materials including but not limited to bituminous concrete.
The Town Administrator shall assess betterment's upon the owners of estates which derive particular advantage from the making of such repairs on any such private way. Such assessment shall be a sum equal, in the aggregate, to the total cost of such repairs and, in the case of each such estate, in proportion to the frontage thereof on such way. Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of Chapter 80 of the General Laws, as amended, relating to public improvements and assessments thereof shall apply to repairs to private ways ordered to be made under this section; provided that no assessment amounting to less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) shall be apportioned and no assessment may be apportioned into more than twenty (20) portions.
The Town shall not be liable on account of any damage caused by such repairs.

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