PotholePalooza Fills Almost 4,000 Potholes in One Month

Potholepalooza wrapped up Wednesday, marking the District Department of Transportation's (DDOT) fifth successful annual campaign. This year DDOT's crew filled nearly 4,000 potholes in the course of one month.

“I’d like to thank the hard-working men and women at DDOT for working tirelessly to fill almost 1,500 more potholes than we filled during last year’s campaign,” DDOT Director Terry Bellamy said in a press release. “I’d also like to thank the public for continuing to support this campaign by notifying us about potholes throughout the city.”

The event kicked off on April 22 and in 23 working days DDOT’s Street and Bridge Maintenance Branch received 849 service requests for pothole repairs and filled 3,899 potholes, according to the DDOT press release. Last year DDOT received 453 service requests and filled 2,443 potholes.

You can still report potholes and other issues with streets and sidewalks

Contact DDOT in any of the following ways and provide as much information as possible about the issue and the location:

1) Call the Mayor’s Call Center at 311

2) Use the Online Service Request Center at 311.dc.gov

3) Send a tweet to twitter.com/DDOTDC

 4) Use the District’s new DC311 smartphone application

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