BMC tests 4 alternate methods to fill road potholes
After facing flak over the years for using cold mix technology to fill potholes on asphalt roads in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) tested several alternative methods to fill potholes on Friday — rapid hardening cement, paver blocks, geo-polymer mix and pre-cast concrete and steel plates.
Four pothole filling solutions were tried out at three sites on a road under the Eastern Freeway on Friday.
On the road below the eastern freeway between Daya Shankar Chowk to MBPT toll, the civic body tried rapid hardening concrete to fill in the pothole. At this site, the patch needed to be barricaded for six hours afterwards before it was reopened to the public.
