Happy Spring, Bloomfield Township! I hope you’ll join me in congratulating our road crews on their hard work this past winter by keeping our streets safe!
This was a particularly brutal winter, with the first big snowfall hitting Thanksgiving weekend followed by months of freezing temperatures, icy conditions, and numerous snow events. DPW crews went on double the runs against their average this year. In December (the second coldest December ever on record in Michigan) they tackled 17 events which were more than the entire 2024-25 season combined. The cold temperatures stuck leaving snow on the ground for weeks.
Despite the intensity, our road crews are well-prepared. Our salt shed stores over 5,000 tons of salt; and when salt is ineffective due to extreme cold, a brine is used. Road crews are on call from November 1st through April 15th. Public Works Director Noah Mehalski monitors incoming storms and strategizes the optimal ways to get crews to work.
As we find temperatures warming up, it creates a new issue of potholes. These are the worst spring road conditions DPW have seen in 10 years. Crews have been out to fill the streets with a cold patch where needed. So far they’ve used 95+ tons of cold patch, spread 2,300 tons of gravel, and repaired 7 major frost-related road failures. Your patience is appreciated as they address all areas.
Residents are the eyes and ears when it comes to the needed patching. I encourage you to call or write in at bloomfieldtwpmi.gov/roadrequest to report issues. The Township App also makes it very easy to upload a picture of a needed repair and send it immediately to the road division. To learn more about the app, visit bloomfieldtwpmi.gov/app.
If you want to learn more about our roads, please watch my interview with Director Mehalski where we cover these topics in depth at bloomfieldtwpmi.gov/roads.
I wish you and your families a wonderful spring as we head into the beautiful summer months.
-Mike McCready
As printed in the Spring 2026 edition of the Living in Bloomfield newsletter.