Stability tests have been completed to finish repairs on the sinkhole that opened last month along North Wymore Road in Maitland, the city said Thursday.
Sinkhole Details
The sinkhole, measuring more than 40 feet in diameter, opened early Friday, May 15, south of Brightwater Circle. A woman who drove into the sinkhole that morning said she thought she hit someone due to the pitch-black conditions in the area.
Demetria Houser, the woman who drove into the sinkhole, said, ‘I went in that sinkhole. I was scared, I called my daughter crying on the phone, saying, I hit somebody.’ She added, ‘I hope they help me fix it because now my car is shaking.’
Orange County Public Works crews have since pumped more than 20,000 gallons of water into the sinkhole, testing the site to see if the hole would retain water or continue to drain underground.
Rebuilding Roadway
Thursday on social media, the city referred to a ‘former sinkhole’ and said those stability tests were all done, adding that engineers would then turn over the project site for Orange County to rebuild about 200 linear feet of Wymore Road. Road construction equipment and materials were already staged there, the post states.
An expected reopening date had not been announced at the time of this report.
Original reporting: WESH Orlando — read the source article.
