We’re starting to see warmer weather which means we’re starting to see even more Sioux Falls city crews out tackling those nasty potholes. KELOLAND’s Whitney Fowkes went with the Sioux Falls Street Department Sunday to see how they fix them and how long they take to fix.

When it comes to filling potholes there are challenges.

“The weather’s our biggest issue with potholing because you get the moisture you get the freeze-thaw cycles and so those potholes, that mix really needs to set up,” Sioux Falls Street Manager Dustin Hansen said.

“The biggest problem would be finding them. Sometimes, we don’t get the best information on where the pot hole is at. You fix a pot hole and then you clear it from the map and then the next day it’s back on there because it wasn’t the right pot hole,” Matt Deschepper said.

Highly-traveled roads have the most apparent pot holes, but traffic makes them difficult to fix.

“They’re kind of hard to have operations there during the day. So, we’ll actually run a night crew to hit some of those major ones at night to get them filled,” Hansen said.

The city hopes to have the main roads taken care of by the end of April; then they will continue their work on side streets.

“The next few weeks actually we’re probably going to quadrant the city out. We have four supervisors that will actually take each quadrant and then we’ll run about six to eight crews Monday through Friday,” Dustin Hansen said.

Crews are not only working to fill potholes but to take care of floodwaters as well.

“Because of the weather and now the flooding, our crew is also focused on fighting that flood, so just be patient with us and we’ll get them fixed,” Dustin Hansen said.