It could just be the subject of a sci-fi flick: 'The Giant Sinkhole That Swallowed Detroit."
Then again, thankfully, no one was hurt or swallowed up by this ridiculously big sinkhole in the road at Linwood near Monterey Avenue in Detroit that could easily swallow a car or two.
Roger Weber of WDIV reports that the hole is about 30-feet wide by 16-feet deep. Besides swallowing a car, there's concern also about the gas line underneath. So far, there have been no gas problems.
The station reports that it could take a week or two to repair.
WDIV reports on its website:
According to the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, a contractor had run a camera up a sewer line to check for ruptures when he noticed the pavement buckling at the intersection of Linwood and Monterey Avenue. He called in other crews while the pavement started to give way.
The break was in a "riser," which is part of the sewer system.
"That riser that lets the sewer drop down into our larger line collapsed," said Darryl Latimer, deputy director at the Water and Sewerage Department. "It eroded the soil over a period of time and caused a water main -- about an 8-inch water main -- to collapse." -- A.L.
