C-DOT also credit 31 miles of streets resurfaced thanks to stimulus money.
"Now will we not only have to not fill potholes on those stretches, but we'll take our resources and put them in other locations, so it's an opportunity cost that we saved," said Thomas Powers, CDOT acting commissioner.
C-DOT officials are optimistic that this winter will not produce the record number of potholes that drivers have faced the last two winters.