City of Little Rock finding solution to sinkhole

A giant sinkhole creates an even bigger problem for the homeowner and the city. Heavy rains over the weekend exposed the sinkhole in the front yard of a home in south Little Rock.

It's at least seven to eight feet deep in parts. If Homer Boose couldn't see the drainage ditch running below his house, he can now. A sinkhole has taken over almost his entire front yard.

"Hoping that it doesn't rain like they said they think it will," Boose said. A mesh fence keeps anyone from falling in but it's not much of a fix.

"Obviously we all think it's not something we need to take a lot of time in figuring out. We do think it's a safety issue," Little Rock City Manager Bruce Moore said.

Little Rock City Manager Bruce moore and members of the public works department are out at booze home.

Not just looking at the hole but in his backyard the city now knows too about the drainage ditch under his home. "That's not how it's supposed to be done, that's obvious first of all," Moore said.

What happened on Sunday was a dramatic shift but there has been movement over the course of several years. When Mr. Boose moved in there was a crack on the other side of his porch. Now that crack is all the way across the porch. A sign that over time, through the years, this house is moving."

"We would not permit anything like that so obviously it was done without the city's permission; it was done many decades ago," Moore said.

And now the fix needs to happen quickly. "We definitely want to have a plan in place, we are concerned about additional rainfall that could be coming into the city," Moore tells us.

"Makes me think they're planning on doing something and I’m pretty proud of that," Boose said.

At this hour the city is still not sure exactly what it will do. If the city has an easement here, they are responsible for the repair. The drainage ditch was built under the house because someone was looking to make money off this land when the homes were built. This was likely done before the city had zoning, maybe 75 plus years ago.

The city says it will let Homer Boose know Tuesday how it plans to fix the sinkhole in his yard. Boose says when he bought the house 30 years ago he had no idea the drainage ditch was running down below.