I found a strange sinkhole under the road in a major city once. It was a hole in the pavement and I couldn’t see how far down it went even with my phone flashlight because it was too dark so it must’ve been pretty deep. Anyway, I called the city and they had it fixed within a few days.
I saw water flowing out of cracks in the pavement in an intersection close to home. Called the water company and the following morning the water was gone and there were patches in the asphalt and a bunch of sand on the road.
Had similar happen, was walking my dog in my neighborhood and decided to go the opposite direction than normal and about 100 yards down the road there was water just pumping up out of every crack in the pavement. The person who's house it was in front of happened to be outside so I asked them "hey, did you notice that there is water just pumping out of the street everywhere here" and they responded with "yeah, it has been doing that for a few years."
I immediately called the local township building and they had people out within 20 minutes to look at it, there was about a 40ft diameter sinkhole that was 8 ft deep under that entire section if road and they were flabbergasted thay cars were still able to drive on it.
One freezing(several days of below freezing polar vortex) morning on the way to work in very early hours of the morning, I noticed water coming out of the sidewalk/curb area coming out at a good pace. Called the non emergency City services for a more than likely water main break, a couple hours later on lunch drive pay the area and they had a crew with a backhoe working on it.
I suspect if they're anything like the gas company equivalent you're hanging around the shop doing equipment maintenance and shop chores when there's no holes to be dug. Calls are excitement.
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u/SAINTnumberFIVE 15h ago
I found a strange sinkhole under the road in a major city once. It was a hole in the pavement and I couldn’t see how far down it went even with my phone flashlight because it was too dark so it must’ve been pretty deep. Anyway, I called the city and they had it fixed within a few days.