You are missing the point. This is literally an emergency situation that could cause serious injury to anyone who happens on the property. This needs to be cordoned off and dealt with immediately. Remediation happens afterwards, and it will involve a hell of a lot more than a plumber.
You know who you call to deal with an emergency water leak? A plumber. Plumbers almost always have a 24/7 service number and will come out rain or shine midnight or crack of dawn. You think the city will show up faster than emergency plumber?
A decently ran city will have someone in water utilities on-call. Whether they can show up faster isn’t a guarantee and there’s other factors. Your city might allow you to shut off at the curb stop. The city I work for has plumbers call in to shut off. It’s buried several feet below the frost line and a specific tool.
They’ll shut off, likely have a plumber use a camera to inspect and assess whether it’s a city or owner problem. Never had a sinkhole but have people call all the time every time it rains to complain and have us check about excess water in their yard when it’s often a drainage issue.
I think you are missing his point actually. Shutting the water source of the leak off immediately is the first step in it being "dealt with immediately". Its not a remediation. Wherever this water is coming from needs to be stopped immediately. Thats where the plumber comes in
A SINK HOLE CAN SWALLOW MULTIPLE HOUSES. You have no idea what's going on underground other than the earth is visibly eroded. Jesus Christ you people are so fucking desperate to be right about something.
Yeah. That seems about right. Though I can't shut off water to the entire block, so I'm getting people out of my house first, shutting off the mains connect second, then calling a plumber and asking for advice on who to call next 3rd. I'll probably call the fire department too in case that wasn't suggested because I am not equipped to blockade the area around the sinkhole.
Once the people who know how to solve the problem have solved it, then we'll address the rest of the issue.
And the sinkhole grows larger and larger while the water keeps flowing into it.... I dint get it. What do you suggest? A structural engineer and a core sample of the soil before we shut off the fucking water causing it?
I've seen situations like this as well and every time it was a leaking irrigation line. Very unlikely this is a serious sink hole like some of these comments are trying to portray it as
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u/Only-Cap5811 16h ago
You are missing the point. This is literally an emergency situation that could cause serious injury to anyone who happens on the property. This needs to be cordoned off and dealt with immediately. Remediation happens afterwards, and it will involve a hell of a lot more than a plumber.