Crews were still working Tuesday to repair the 58-foot, 15-foot-wide and 20-foot-deep hole on Radcliff Avenue in Morris Park.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection responded to investigate the scene.
Crews said repair work would be extensive and the compound would remain closed for a week or so to rebuild subsurface infrastructure and restore roads.
Officials said everything would be considered part of the investigation, including whether the weather played a role.
DEP spokesman Edward Timbers said: “The investigation into the root cause of the road collapse is ongoing. “Weather can certainly play a part of it.”
As for the truck, Timbers said it appeared to have survived the traumatic experience and was able to be driven away.
Some residents are currently without water service because of the sinkhole, and many are left with take-home bottles of water in the 90-degree heat.
“There are no words to explain that,” said Morris Park resident Donna Messina. “Thank God no one was hurt. God forbid someone drove past it at that time. It was scary.”
The first step is to lift the hollow valve out of the sinkhole, then get ashore and make sure the sinkhole doesn’t grow wider.
“This is not the first time, since last year, this has been an issue,” said resident Pash Maksuti. “They opened up here last year, they fixed it about two, three months ago. Again, it happened here.”
And that is probably what makes the neighbors most upset, when this is the second sinkhole in the area. Last August, during Hurricane Ida, a sinkhole opened right on the side of the road.
‘There was another sinkhole during that time, so they fixed it,’ neighbor Sara Manzo said. “They just finished this a few months ago, and now we have this. So hopefully it gets resolved quicker than that.”
The city set up a pair of water stations for those who lost service.
“It won’t help,” said area resident Khairul Dipu. “We’re too far away. I asked them if you could open one in the middle. They said there’s no water there.”
Crews are filling the sinkhole with sand and dirt as they try to protect the area.
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