A collapsed catch basin has caused a large sinkhole in Elizabeth Township.
Someone sent a message to our WPXI Facebook Page, alerting to the issue near the corner of Smithfield and Lodge streets. We sent Channel 11's Erin Clarke to check it out.
She spoke with the foreman of the township’s Road Department.
He told her the repair got more complicated when a broken pipe was discovered inside the hole.
“We got here Saturday and also we started on a Monday," said Jake Weigand. "We did an 'emergency one' call on it and we’ve been working on it ever since. We didn’t want to find out that a pipe was collapsed but since we did, we got to repair it.”
Just learned some me new info about this huge sinkhole at Smithfield and Lodge in Boston, PA. Turns out a catch basin collapsed & workers discovered a large pipe inside had broken, so repairs are taking longer than expected. We’ll get more info from the road supervisor later 2day pic.twitter.com/paNCaGLbgJ
— Erin Clarke (@ErinClarkeWPXI) April 11, 2018
The foreman said they hope to have repairs completed by the end of Thursday.
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