Public Works officials at the City of Granbury (Texas) are surveying the damage left behind by a 45-foot-wide, 30-foot-deep sinkhole in the parking lot of a local grocery store after heavy rainfall washed out a stormwater culvert. Sewer lines that were attached to a nearby lift station were severed, and the lift station itself is a total loss."We discovered the cause of the washout was that an 8-foot stormwater culvert, running under the parking lot and sitting lower than the lift station, had collapsed," says Sheri Campbell-Husband, assistant city manager. "With all the recent rain, the water had to go somewhere, and it leaked out of the
Sinkhole Severs Sewers, Wipes Out Lift Station
A stormwater culvert collapses, creating a 45-foot-wide sinkhole — and a $500,000 problem — in Texas
May 25, 2015
| by Luke LeNoble |
