For now there is a three-pronged strategy on the sinkhole on Chalmer Terrace in the Village of Buttonwood.
Watching.
Waiting.
And praying it doesn’t rain.
“You don’t want to add more water to this,” Gina Lambert of the Villages Public Safety Department said in her morning briefing to the press.
She said for now the sinkhole has “stopped growing.”
But she added, they’re not out of the woods yet. She said the sinkhole, which at one point this past weekend was 60 feet deep, will continue to be monitored.
On Wednesday, 18 truckloads of fill dirt were poured into the sinkhole.
A Bobcat was used to move the dirt into place and smooth things out.
“You have to hand it to that Bobcat operator,” Lambert said. “He really did a great job.”
She also had praise for Helicon Property Restoration which is heading the operation at the behest one of the homeowner’s insurance company.
“They have done a yeoman’s job on this,” she said.
No one has been evacuated from the neighborhood, she added. The homeowners have been away during the entire sinkhole drama this past week.
Villages Public Safety and Community Watch remained on site Thursday.
Community Watch is primarily trying to keep the public a safe distance from the sinkhole.
