A possible water leak resulted in the sagging of the roadway, creating a gaping hole in the size of a car in the district of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, in Montreal.
“Everyone is worried. We wonder what’s going on. We have never seen that! ”Said Hercules Champigny, a neighbor of the crater who formed at the corner of the Mariette streets and Somerled avenue.
The police intervened in the middle of the night to secure the perimeter around the hole of about 5 square meters.
Inside, the water flees from an underground pipe, which has the effect of a fall under the road which collapsed in the middle of the street, in front of a daycare center and very close to a primary school.
Hercules Champigny in front of the crater which was formed at the corner of rue Mariette and avenue Somerled, in the district of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dâme-de-Grâce.
Photo Anek Lebel
“It looks like a swimming pool!” They should have closed water, it is not safe, ”believes Mr. Champigny, who has lived in the sector for 50 years.
There were no employees of the city when the newspaper was passed on Wednesday morning.
Possible water leakage
“They rang at my place this night so that I move my car. There was no hole at that time. It was rather a little bump, a bit like a back-d’âne. It must have growed since ”, testifies Gabord Boros, who is badly explained what could have happened.
The district of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame de Grâce will not be able to carry out repair work before the cause of the subsidence of the road is identified.
“The hypothesis is that there would have been an underground flight and that the earth moved under the road. We have dropped the pressure of the pipes in the sector to be able to investigate, “said Étienne Brunet, head of the communications division at the district.
“It is first necessary to be able to be able to have a work schedule,” he said.
It was neither able to say what type of driving could be affected or how long the work could last.
With the collaboration of Olivier Faucher
