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Nine families on the 700 block of North Avenue were displaced after a massive sinkhole opened suddenly on July 5, as Daily Voice has reported.
Some of those residents have opted to file suit against the city when municipal officials denied their claims for public assistance. Now, in an interview with WMAR, an attorney for the homeowners is speaking out.
"What had happened was the critical failure of 115-year-old storm drain tunnel that was beneath the sink hole," lawyer Thiru Vignaraja told the outlet.
According to Vignaraja, the city says residents did not give them adequate notice about the storm drain tunnel and its need for repairs. The attorney argues maintaining public works is, in fact, a responsibility of the Public Works Department and not the city's homeowners.
"Nobody expects the floor beneath your home to collapse and for your housing to be turned into a pile of rocks. They're entitled to be made whole," he told WMAR. They're entitled to be put back in the place they were in before this catastrophe happened,"
Click here for the full report from WMAR.
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