Sinkhole in west Rapid City continues to grow
Public works and safety officials said Thursday that they are still trying to determine what caused a 40-foot-deep sinkhole to open up in a residential neighborhood in north western Rapid City.
The crater gaping in front of a home on the 300 block of Whitewood Street was said not to have grown any wider by late Thursday afternoon but continues to erode beneath the surface.
As a result, the street remains closed to traffic from West Rapid to West Omaha streets without any indication of when it will reopen. Barricades closing off West Omaha Street from National to Sturgis streets were still in place by late Thursday evening as well.
"With the sinkhole remaining active … we can’t determine a timeline for when we would open up to traffic at this point," City Spokesperson Darrell Shoemaker said in a telephone interview late Thursday.
Read more: https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/update-sinkhole-in-west-rapid-city-continues-to-grow/article_e5d700b1-1c65-5df0-a25b-3f486141193b.html
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