Sinkhole in Detroit turns into a fishing hole

Auntie Na pointed out that the pond isn’t actually stagnant, but is refreshed by the water flowing through the pond from the broken water main.

Faced with an enormous, neglected hole in the road, residents of one Detroit neighborhood have gotten creative, turning a negative into a positive, and a pothole into a fishing hole. Uncle Zeke plans to clean up the vacant lots on Hull street, and says that the fish pond is an initial step in improving the sparsely populated block.

A giant hole on Hull Street in the city’s East Side has been around for about four years now.

“We come out and feed them”.

“While we are still investigating how the damage occurred on Hull Street, we are working collaboratively with the city to make sure the road is repaired and safe for the residents who live in the area”, DTE Energy told ABC News in a statement.

“This is our pond now,” added resident Yvette Pugh.

The large hole, which measures 15 feet long by four feet wide and is a “couple feet” deep, was dug by a gas utility company several years ago and the work simply wasn’t completed. If not, the department may work with Animal Control to “safely remove the fish and relocate them to another habitat”, he said. WXYZ Detroit The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department says it has no record of any fix work being done on the sinkhole. Despite the fun some of the children are having fishing, many residents just want to see the sinkhole gone.

“We like our fish, but honestly, we’d like the road fixed”, neighbor Pete Bolden said.

The water department crews say markings on the road indicate a utility company started work there.