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Road Collapsing
Sent to Oxfordshire County Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 8862358.
So you’re aware, the road outside 30 Wellington Street in Thame looks to be collapsing along the line of the sewer. A trench has formed that causes a bump when cars travel over it. It’s about 40-50cm wide and about 2m long. It begins at the site of the sinkhole that you filled in. It looks to be a Thames Water issue continuing the issues at the location. Thames Water have been phoned and will attend.
Council ref: ENQ261081774
Updates
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Thank you for your enquiry. This issue has been passed onto the relevant team for investigation.
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Thames Water say that it is not their issue. Please can you investigate and liaise with Thames Water as required.
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Having driven over this tonight, it appears that this has sunk further from the picture above. I would suggest this need looking at fairly urgently incase there is little below it.
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This is getting worse and could cause a serious accident if it fails when somebody is driving over it.
Can we have an update as to what is happening as this needs to be fixed soonest.
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Ths sunken area contunues to sink further on a daily basis. There is now a big 'thump' of the suspension and a roller-coaster ride every time you cross the thing.
Is anyone going to do something before a cyclist at least gets severely injured?
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The road is now being to sink at the centre line of the road, where the zig zags are for the zebra crossing, on the same side of the zebra crossing as this depression. It looks like it’s not just this area. McAllister were UV-lining the sewer here 6-7th Feb, the day before this all started sinking.
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The patch is now sinking and the centre line of the road has formed a shallow trench. There also looks to be a new void developing on the other side of the zebra crossing. This started developing immediately after Thames Water line the pipe. Could they have messed it up and water be travelling externally to the pipe?
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The section of road where the patch is now worse then previously shown with one of thenside sinking considerably more than the other with a loud bang if you drive over the sunk section.
This needs investigating ASAP as clearly the sub surface is not sound.
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The tarmac patch for the original sinkhole that opened and OCC applied, looks to have given way. The newer tarmac patch applied after the Thames Water work is now stretching into the hole. It will likely open up when a car travels over it in the next week. It has gone extremely worse this week.
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The centre of the tarmac patch is now heavily dimpled and is elastically stretching below the surrounding road surface into what can only be a void (after all - the elastic deformation has to be going somewhere!). It has also risen up at the edges where it used to butt against the surrounding road surface.
This looks hazardous and set to fail with maybe a heavy vehicle or enough vehicle crossings to deform the surface beyond its elastic limits.
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Taken Friday night, you can see the tarmac visibly sagging as it stretches through the hole beneath.
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The sinkage is very significant now - in excess of 150mm down with a secondary area forming just beyond.
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This is becoming a very serious problem, I drove over the sunken part of the road and there was an enormous bang. I don’t think my car (mini) was badly damaged, but I haven’t fully investigated yet. It’s getting really bad and needs fixing asap.
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This needs sorting ASAP!
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There are now cracks developing in and around the deforming road surface.
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Given the issues in Wellington Street last year that led to many weeks of multipole closures and repairs by Thames Water - and also that is immediately adjacent and in line with the prior waste water failures - has anyone in the Council reported this to Thames Water before someone and their bike or car either is forced to swerves into a crash or falls into the developing hole?
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Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. While Oxfordshire County Council is not responsible for this problem, it is an ongoing issue for Thames Water to recify who have also barriered off the section]. The report will now be closed on Fix My Street.
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.