A portion of Coastal Highway closed for several hours last week as crews worked to repair a 20-foot-long sinkhole.
Last Wednesday afternoon, the Maryland Department of Transportation alerted motorists to emergency road work that closed all but the left lane of northbound Coastal Highway at 49th Street. There, crews with Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) District 1 redirected traffic while its contractor, David A. Bramble, Inc., spent hours filling a sinkhole and repairing the roadway.
All lanes were reopened by 5 a.m. the following day, SHA said this week. However, the agency reports it has yet to determine the cause the sinkhole’s formation.
“We have not yet determined the source of the void, but have ruled out a number of issues including a water line being hit and a gas line boring through a storm drainpipe,” SHA Media Relations Manager Shanteé Felix shared in a statement Monday.
“In conversations with Ocean City Department of Public Works, we learned that a similar incident occurred in that area a few years ago and are working with them and utility owners to determine if these may be related.”
I sure hope sinkhole doesn’t develope under one of the highrises.
Your correct about the sink hole
Ocean City Maryland is a Island…
Just a matter of time before buildings, roads and people start getting swallowed up by sinkholes.