West Sussex County Council Highways Teams are making progress responding to the impact of the severe weather on our roads. Since the start of February, crews have cleared more than 3,000 drains and repaired more than 1,800 potholes. This builds on their work through January to prepare as much as possible for this recent period of rain.

High levels of standing water are having a detrimental effect on road surfaces and we’re seeing a sharp increase in pothole reports coming through.

The council has increased resources to respond to safety defects throughout the week, evenings and weekends and brought in an additional drainage jetter to clear blocked drains and remove standing water.

A council spokesperson said:

“We are managing to keep the vast majority of our road network open and moving and we will continue this work with more rain and colder weather predicted.

“Longer term, we are reviewing our resurfacing works programme to ensure roads impacted by the weather get additional focus.

We are aware that roads in the area have been damaged by the high levels of water.  Our teams will repair the potholes caused once the weather has improved enough to allow us to do so.”

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