sinkhole that opened on North Wymore Road on May 15<\/a>, swallowing the lanes in both directions.\u00a0<\/p>\nOrange County public works officials said crews have already drilled four test borings, and they are drilling four more to ensure no new cavities are forming down in the hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Public Works Public Information Officer Darrell Moody explained the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll drill down 100 feet into the surface, basically testing all that fill material that we used to fill in the sinkhole. They\u2019re going to drill down one hundred feet to make sure that it\u2019s all the way through,” Moody said.<\/p>\n
Moody added that if the test borings this week show the hole is stable, crews can begin pumping tons of grouting similar to concrete to fill the hole and seal it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s activated with water. It expands and hardens, and it\u2019s basically used to fortify and solidify the materials we\u2019ve filled into the sinkhole,” Moody said.<\/p>\n
After crews seal the sinkhole, they can bring in machinery to repave the road.\u00a0 Moody says detours at Hope Road and Oranole Road will remain in place while the work continues.\u00a0 He says public works won\u2019t know when this stretch of Wymore Road will reopen until engineers finish their work.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just going to have to sit tight and let them complete their process,” he said.<\/p>\n
There are signs posted that say the sidewalk is also closed. Officials say pedestrians and bicyclists cannot come through the closed roadway area. They say it is unlawful and dangerous with construction equipment working in the area.<\/p>\n
Moody explains it is still too early in the repair process to determine how much money it will cost to repair the sinkhole and get that part of Wymore Road open again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The large sinkhole in Maitland still has drivers detouring to two areas of Wymore Road as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[767,16485,770,1563,1337,115,1335,139,141,140,835],"class_list":["post-285569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-community","tag-app-environment","tag-community-news","tag-environment","tag-keith-landry","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}