Ventura sewage puddles removed the shed and two cars and sent people to rush to the top
Two cars fell down a sewage puddle near a construction site in Ventura on Tuesday morning, and the ground collapsed several feet – the sidewalks broke, the fences were broken, and people were sent to escape from the safety of safety.
Next to the sewage puddle is home to the Future Apartment Building on East Front Street near South Guishu Street, but it mainly damaged an adjacent lot where several vehicles were parked. The sewage puddle is less than a mile from Ventura Pier and even closer to the ocean.
No one was injured in the collapse. Ventura City officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the sewage pit. Representatives of the company that built the apartment building were also unable to comment.
Tron Elliott, who owns a nearby auto repair shop, said a neighbor caught him earlier Tuesday after noticing that the ground was moving. Elliott and neighbors both store vehicles in the plot that the sewage puddle eventually formed.
“We can see it starts sinking and falling,” Elliott said in an interview with The Times. “It happens to be where my truck is.”
The two worked together to try to keep the high-risk vehicles away from the area and be able to move two before the movement accelerated. When Elliott tried to get the third car out safely, he said the ground moved again and his son yelled and he got out of the car.
“I tried to drag out another truck,” said Elliott, the owner of the Elliott show. “When it collapsed, I turned it over. ”
After he moved the vehicle out, he looked back and watched as a customer’s blue pickup truck fell into his private black truck as the sunken earth fell. As the ground moves more, the movement pushes the covered corridor to the edge of the sewage puddle, swaying unsteadily.
“It’s good,” Elliott said.
Elliott said later officials came and red marked the area, declaring it too dangerous for anyone to enter.
He didn’t know what would cause the sewage puddle, but said he had no action since early Tuesday. He is not particularly worried about future potholes because he is worried about how another large apartment building affects the area.
“Too many apartment buildings and they’re trying to push us away,” Elliott said of small businesses in the area. “We expect some growth, but it’s out of control.”
