Well...just as I suspected. The "patch job" that was done was only temporary! The crew never cleaned out the potholes before dumping more cold patch right on top of the loose sand, gravel and rubble. There are more holes at the same location. Some more than one layer of asphalt deep. And there are also fairly large potholes at the north end of Ridge Top Dr where it meets Tubbs Rd. There is another area that is hazardous in our subdivision and that is at the northern end of Ridge Top Dr meets Sparrowood at the crosswalk. This is where children meet the school bus and needs to repaired, too. Please help.

Chuck:

Thank you for the information. We have forwarded to our Maintenance Dept. In the future, for the quickest response, please contact the Road Commission directly. We do not have the staff to monitor all of these private sites that invite people to post info. You can reach us at 877-858-4804 or fill out a form online at www.rcocweb.org (click on "Contact Us").

Just a quick note: Due to the quantity of potholes in the county and the number of staff we have available to patch them, we simply do not have time to spend "prepping" a pothole. We are trying to fill as many holes as quickly as possible. Additionally, we know the cold patch used in the winter is only a temporary solution. However, there is no other product available, at a reasonable price, that can be used in winter. We constantly try to balance efficiency with cost-effectiveness while working within the realities of our budget.

Again, thank you for the information.
Road Commission for Oakland County

Thank you for your reply. I completely understand that there are many more potholes to deal with during the winter. And, I'm sure cold patch IS only a temporary fix, no matter what time of the year it is used. We do appreciate the crews that are out patching.

As you must know, Crescent Lk Rd was resurfaced this spring and new guard rails installed at the Clinton River overpass. And, some "cold patch" activity has been done on Ridgetop Dr. However, I feel there is, or certainly will be, a big problem when it rains. They never fixed the area where rain water will drain into the ditch, right next to the headpost of the guard rail where Ridgetop Dr joins with Crescent Lk Rd. There is always a large volume of water that cascades down Ridgetop at that intersection, when it rains, and I feel that the area that should aid the runoff of water was not properly finished and will certainly fall apart. I hope that this notification will prompt an inspection and hopefully result in a properly prepared water run off. After all the expense in resurfacing Crescent Lk Rd, and digging out ditches to aid water run off, and the addition of new guard rails, that by ignoring this detail could eventually jeopardize the work.

Thank you for your time.

This information has been forwarded to the appropriate staff.

Hello Again. The saga continues!!! There is a pothole so large at the end of Ridgetop where it meets Crescent Lk Rd that we've had to put one of your orange barrels into the hole!! Yes!!! Come on now. How many times are you going to send out a patching crew to fix this problem? If they would do the job correctly it would be DONE!

Your crews can't just throw more hot patch at the hole...they need to clean out the loose debris and chunks of broken asphalt that is in the hole first. Isn't there any way you could have this problem resolved permanently?

Please send someone out to survey the situation and ultimately repair that area of our street.

Chuck, as noted previously, unfortunately, given the quantity of potholes we must address, we are not able to spend a lot of time prepping each individual hole. If that were the case, we would patch far fewer potholes, which means we would likely not be able to get potholes within subdivisions, such as this one, because we would only have time to focus on the busiest roads -- safety dictates that we must prioritize those potholes on roads with the most traffic traveling at the highest speeds.

For best results, in the future please contact the Road Commission directly. We are not able to frequently monitor all the for-profit websites where people are encouraged to post information. You can reach us directly at www.rcocweb.org (click on the "contact us" button on the top of the home page) or via 877-858-4804.

Thank you.
Road Commission for Oakland County

Ridgetop Dr. still needs lots of help. Now that snow covers the road it will be more difficult to locate the largest and deepest of the many pot holes or twin potholes. But, they are there. Especially at both ends of Ridgetop Dr where it meets up with Crescent Lk Rd.
There are a pair of pretty deep potholes about 20 feet in from where the crosswalk at Crescent Lk Rd meets Ridgetop.
There are other potholes along the entire shore stretch of Ridgetop Dr.
It would be great if you could put our street on your list of streets in need of help!

The pothole patch crew visited our street last week and did a pretty good job of filling most of the potholes, at both ends of the street and all along the street. A few smaller potholes were missed. Or, perhaps they were too small at this time to dump some pothole repair mix into the hole. Nonetheless, the street is now much safer for all 78 homes that are in this subdivision. Thank you!