Update:: Seminole Court in Pittsfield Township reopened after repairs to sinkhole

According to Washenaw County water resources deputy commissioner Dennis Wojcik, damage to a 12-inch (diameter) storm sewer pipe and a pipe-fitting is what caused a two-foot-by-three-foot piece of road to sink four feet last Monday, July 9. A roughly seven-foot section of pipe was replaced and a 25-foot-by-23-foot section of road was repaved Thursday and Friday at an estimated cost of $8,000.

The small subdivision street between Central Boulevard and Packard Road reopened at 4 p.m. on Friday, July 13.

Wojcik said the commission is permitted to spend $25,000 per year on the particular drain that underwent repairs and that Thursday and Friday’s work was the first dollars spent on it this fiscal year.

View Construction Reports 2012 in a larger map

Contact Pete Cunningham at petercunningham@annarbor.com or by phone at 734-623-2561. Follow him on Twitter @petcunningham.