DC To Fix Potholes In 48 Hours During Potholepalooza

WASHINGTON, DC — On Monday, April 3, Mayor Muriel Bowser kicked off the District's Potholepalooza — the annual spring season campaign created to speed up pothole repairs throughout DC.

The Potholepalooza ensures that DDOT officials (District Department of Transportation) will "aggressively repair" damaged roadways across the city, according to DDOT.

Throughout the spring, DDOT expedites the repair of potholes. Service requests will be answered within 48 hours over the next 30 days. The average service request is answered within 72 hours.

Potholepalooza started in 2009 and since then, DDOT crews have filled more than 331,000 potholes since Fiscal Year 2010. In 2016, DDOT received over 2,017 service requests for pothole repairs during the moth-long Potholepalooza.

Residents, visitors and commuters can report a pothole to DDOT in a variety of ways:

1. Call the Mayor's Call Center at 311,
2. Use the Online Service Request Center at 311.dc.gov,
3. Visit DDOT's service request website http://ddot.dc.gov/potholes
4. Tweet to twitter.com/DDOTDC, Use the hashtag #potholepalooza
5. Email to Potholepalooza 2017.
6. Use the District's DC311 smartphone application.
7. Visit, like and post a comment on Potholepalooza on Facebook.com.

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