Recent rainfall in Tucson has left streets on campus torn up and full of holes, but workers are promising to patch reported potholes within 24 hours.

A lot of patched road areas are deteriorating because of the heavy rains, but that's nothing out of the ordinary, said Chris Kopach, environmental services associate director in Facilities Management.

Facilities Management has a crew who will repair any reported areas within 24 hours, Kopach said.

To prevent a hazard caused by the broken asphalt, a street sweeper cleans UA roads each weekday from 4 p.m. to midnight to remove any hazardous material, Kopach said.

For the roads on campus owned by the City of Tucson, Facilities Management contacts the city on a daily basis until those roads are repaired, Kopach said.

Parking and Transportation Services only fixes potholes in parking lots, and workers were busy Monday and yesterday using bags of asphalt to fill the holes, said Joyce Childers, enforcement supervisor with PTS.

Childers said Facilities Management filled a sizeable pothole Monday morning on East Fourth Street south of the UA Main Library near North Vine Avenue.

"It was getting so deep the traffic cone in the hole was barely visible," Childers said.

Sergeant Eugene Mejia, University of Arizona Police Department spokesman, said officers have been calling in to report potholes they see, but that's something they do normally.

UAPD is advising drivers to slow down when they see potholes and take extra precautions until the roads are repaired, Mejia said.

Danielle Schafer, a communications senior, said the potholes on campus have been a major problem for her.

Schafer had to replace all four of her tires after they began shredding recently, which she said was worsened by the road conditions.

"The potholes couldn't have helped," Schafer said.

Schafer said the entire street should be completely repaved rather than just patching the chips in the road that do not last.

Facilities Management's budget has dropped 25 percent from $22 million down to $18 million, but they must still maintain the 26 miles of UA roads, Kopach said.

Within six months, Facilities Management will begin a three-year, three-phase plan to repave all university roads, spending $700,000 per year on the project, Kopach said.

"We have a bigger plan, and we've prioritized the roads that are in the worst conditions," Kopach said.