Like alligators and high humidity, ...

Like alligators and high humidity, sinkholes are a fact of life in Florida. And last summer the sinkholes that plagued Ravena road in the city of Venice prov especially challenging for the Sarasota shire workers who tackled the piece of work of repairing them.

The crux of the riddle was a failed 30-year-old metal storm sewer that ran within four feet of a family and was buried about 10 feet astute says Gary Downing, project engineer for the Sarasota shire Department of Transportation. Compounding matters, workers and nothing else had about 35 feet of space between the house and a neighbor's swimming pond

“We couldn't safely dig not at home the existing pipe that stop up to the house,” says Roy Lessig, Sarasota shire crew leader, “so the metal pipe had to be abandoned and filled with conglomerated and the new pipe had to be counterbalance around the old system.”