It’s Late, But Pothole Season 2025 Has Finally Arrived in Litchfield County

Have you spilled coffee all over yourself while driving? Was it because your car just took a sudden nosedive? It happened to me this morning along Federal Road in Brookfield. It's late this year, but pothole season has finally arrived here in Connecticut.

It took until February, but the frost heaves of the Winter of 24/25 have finally eaten through enough of the asphalt. Connecticut's pothole season is finally in full swing as we get into March 2025. I drove over a beauty today along 202 just after the center of Bantam that jarred my spine. Right in the middle of town just past the Bantam Art Factory there's been some road work going on as part of the bipartisan effort to address our roads and infrastructure. Over the past three weeks, numerous freezes and re-freezes have started getting into the roadway, and nice potholes are erupting from the ground.

How do potholes form? Don't we use sturdy, modern material that should withstand a season or two of sub-freezing temps? It's not that easy. Water is incredibly destructive, and when it gets underneath a layer of concrete and asphalt into the supporting ground or gravel and freezes, the volume expands and even extremely strong material like stone, rock, and granite have no chance.

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One roadway problem that I haven't hear happen recently is a popped expansion joint at any of our elevated sections of roadway, that is even worse than a molar-rattling pothole. We still have around 6-8 weeks where the temperature could drop below freezing, but hard freezes after April 1 are rare. Hang in there for a couple more weeks, endure the temporary lane closures as the workers patch up around you.