I purchased a new construction home that was built in 1999. Last
summer I had a dump truck full of mulch burry itself to it's axles in
my front yard. I thought it might have been from the water line to the
street and that the dirt was just soft in that area. Now that the snow
has melted my back yard (cleared one-acre lot) is riddled with so many
sink holes that I am afraid to let my 2 year old daughter walk in the
yard. I talked to my neighbor and he said that instead of hauling the
trees off the lot they were burried, leaves and all, in 3 or 4 large
20 foot deep holes. Some of these sink holes that recently appeared
are 4 feet deep! I can see large indentations in the soil around the
sink holes about 12 feet by 15 feet. What can I do? I was thinking of
renting a bulldozer to pack down the areas and top it off with fill
but I'm afraid I'd sink the dozer. Is it possible for a dozer to get
stuck? Is this something best left to professional and if so do I call
an excavator or a landscaper, or? Will I have to do this every spring
for the next 25 years? So much for pulling the car under a shady tree
in the back yard for a wax job! Any insight, suggestions or comments
would be greatly appreciated.
Geo in Cleveland

Well, since it sounds as though much of your development will suffer these
problems, I would contact a good construction defect litigation firm. This is
obviously going to damage your property value, to say nothing of what might
happen when these things start opening under parts of your foundation. In
other words, the developer ought to bear the costs of putting things right (I
don't think you intended to buy an insurance claim).



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