Evansville – It is reported that the driver avoided trauma after driving around a few barricades and Thursday afternoon Riverside Drive driving to a giant sinkhole, Evansville police said.
On the arrival of Courier & Press, a white Chevrolet truck was worn from the scene. Previous photos in social media showed the vehicle in a deep gravel sinkhole.
At the scene of the incident, the Evansville police officer said there were no injuries. The truck apparently went off Chestnut Street.
The huge holes formed at the end of February due to what Evansville Water and Sewerage Officials think is damaged by a sewer line below the knee. Since then, it has been closed on the river banks in both directions.
But EPD spokesman SGT. Anthony Aussieker Courier & Press said: “The driver drove around the barricades and to the sinkhole.” He said they didn’t get any quotes.
Ewsu spokeswoman Ella Johnson-Watson said the truck does not look obvious damage to the site. However, the employees were still interviewing the situation on Thursday afternoon.
“We had barricades there and they are for a reason. On (drivers) safety,” Johnson-Watson told Courier & Press. “… We greatly encourage them not to drive around obstacles.”
After Evansville’s police say the truck is from the scene of the incident, says the driver driving around a few barricades, and Thursday afternoon, the Riverside Drive has immersed in a giant, partially filled sink.
The latest problem of Evansville sinkhole
This incident is just the latest problem with a sinkhole that has been tortured by city officials and nearby residents for several months.
Troy Wilson, a representative with the Masonic Temple in a nearby chestnut and third streets, at a press conference on May 15. Faced with EWSU officials and said the gravel and other material used to fill the hole in the historic temple caused flood problems.
EWSU officials said they had filled the sink so that it would not fall. Wilson believes that the material blocked the flow of water in the sewer and caused pressure to build inside the building by sending liquid shooting from the temple shells and toilets when it rains.
“We never had water in that building until they did it,” he told Courier & Press.
The basement of the Trinity United Methodist Church has also flooded several times in recent weeks. Board member Brian Williams said it was the first time the building took over the water since the record 1937. Tidal.
Miller believes that EWSU should pay for damage in the temple, which he says is a thousand dollars. In its report, Courier & Press May 21. EWSU Executive Director Vicas Kelson said he “black and white, which actually caused high water levels in the combined sewer on Chestnut Street.”
This can be caused by several factors, saying, “either due to unnoticed clogging, tree roots, physical aging sewerage failure, or just a short -term, high -intensity storm event.”
“I know that some members of society speculated that the RIP-RAP, which was inserted into a hole in chestnut and riverside, created a backup,” he wrote. “The fact is that the situation is much more complicated.”
EWSU said there is no schedule when a sinkhole could be set. May 15 At the conference, Kelson and Deputy Director of Outcome Operations Justin Guetling said that due to this spring, rain barriers and the permanent Ohio River level are still deep into the sinkhole, so it may be unsafe for employees.
To make repairs, the river will need to retreat up to 23 feet and stay that way for a while. From Thursday, he was standing at the 19.72 feet, but it will rise again next week.
This article initially appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Trucks drive to a giant Evansville sinkhole Riverside Drive