With the consistently high temperatures, snow and ice within the city of Moose Jaw has been melting fast, creating drainage issues and revealing roads riddled with potholes. 

The city released a notice that daytime and night crews are out working to fix the drainage problems and fill potholes. 

"Yesterday was probably the worst of it, sort of that big first intial melt and identifying all the areas that were frozen underneath... we had crews out (who) worked about 14 hour days... Staff has certainly been working hard to prevent damage and to help owners out," says Darrin Stephanson, Director of Public Works.

The city is utilizing steam boiler units and Vactor trucks to thaw frozen catch basins and storm sewers.

Pothole Crews. (Photo submitted by the City of the Moose Jaw)

Pothole crews are currently deploying cold mix, a temporary solution until asphalt plants come into operation later this spring. Then after that we'd default to the winter maintenance policy where you're hitting the prioroity roads and main collectors and then working your way out into residential areas."

The protocol for road maintence priorty is similar to the winter snow removal system. Stephanson says, "As we're getting complaints in, what we'll primarily base it on is property damage. So, if there's risk of property damage that's the areas that we'll prioritize and respong to first

The city encourages residents to report drainage or pothole issues by using the Report An Issue feature on the City of Moose Jaw app (under the Streets & Roads heading.)

The app allows you to take and submit photos of the issue and then the report will go directly to the Streets & Roads crews.