Kim?Campbell?got the shock of her life when she fell into a hole while standing on her front lawn.
“I?was just standing on the spot and the next thing I knew my right foot just fell in,” she explained, demonstrating how she escaped serious injury because her left foot cushioned the remainder of her body.
When Campbell, who lives at Valley Development, St George, managed to pull herself out of the hole, she realized that there was a water main running inside of it that was gushing water.
She immediately realized that the burst main had undermined the ground and that was why the soil gave way beneath her. In addition, she also noticed that the running water was further eroding the soil around it.
Campbell said she reported the matter to the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) on August 27, the same day she fell, and explained to them the urgency of the situation. But up to when she contacted THE NATION on Monday, no personnel from that agency had turned up.
While she has covered the hole, she is still fearful that unsuspecting children in the neighbourhood could fall in while playing. And at times she has had to warn truck drivers delivering construction material in the area to be careful since the hole was now eroding near the road.
The concerned woman said she went out almost every day with a measuring tape and measured the hole and each time she noticed that it got bigger and deeper.
It is now 15 feet deep, she said.
The matter was drawn to the attention of officials at the BWA, who promised to investigate.
