State highway officials say concrete is crumbling on a three-mile stretch of the M-6 freeway south of Grand Rapids years before it should've started deteriorating.
Michigan Department of Transportation spokesman John Richard tells WOOD-TV that transportation officials are blaming the failure on a shortage in the natural resin used in highway concrete when the freeway was built about a dozen years ago.
He says crews were forced to use synthetic resin on the project.
The department plans to spend $10 million to tear out and rebuild the stretch of M-6 between Kent and Ottawa counties in 2018.
The nearly 20-mile freeway was completed in 2004 at a cost of $700 million.
The state spent almost $2 million to fix crumbling asphalt on the east end of the freeway in 2009.