CYPRESS, Texas – As the water runs down a drainage ditch, people who live along the Cypress Creek Greenway Project say a giant sinkhole has grown from just a few feet across last summer into a giant hold that swallows everything in its path, including the concrete sidewalk.
"It would be next to impossible to climb your way out,” said Tim Vick. He said he called everyone about the growing hole just off Whittaker Way in the Sand Piper Subdivision in Spring.
But he said nothing happened in the last eight months or so except seeing the hole grow.
He said a plastic construction fence went up just two days ago. He said, "The other night I was out walking my dog after dark and I heard some children ride bikes and I could hear them off in the distance.
Of course I panicked with this new fresh fear that they would come to the end of this trail and just drop off in this 35-foot sinkhole."
The Harris County Flood Control District said it is designing a fix for the growing problem.
While it says sinkholes are common along drains, it says this will take more work.
It plans to let the project out for bids in June with possible construction starting as early as September.