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Why did a patch of West 17th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues give way under the weight a sanitation truck? It turns out there was a broken sewer. We wonder if the sewer had recently broken or if the Department of Environmental Protection knew about it but was waiting for the street to fall in.
Con Ed told Metro that there were no gas leak, though there were reports of a threat of a gas leak. By 6:30PM, though, two cranes hauled the truck, which was leaning against an unlucky person's van, away.
Now the clock is running to see how long it'll take the DEP to fix the hole. At least, we think that it's the DEP's responsibility, as this is a cave-in, versus a pothole.
Photograph of the West 17th sinkhole by missapril1956 on Flickr
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The hole was actually paved over by this morning: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7945250@N08/1332444560/
Does that mean that the sewer was not fixed first?
not sure, but it was fixed prior to 9am this morning
I'll give the DEP 2 years to start the appropriate paperwork. Then another 3 years for the fix. They don't hesitate to overcharge water bills, or hand out violations like government cheese, but when you tell them to come fix their own mistakes... it takes four years.
If it was paved over then the sewer was fixed first. Besides, stuff like this that gets into the news always gets dealt with first at DEP. They'll drop everything to fix a leaky sewer if they think the media is onto it.