Engineers hired to examine repeated sinkholes on South 14th Street in Harrisburg plan to reveal the results of the first phase of their analysis at a City Council committee meeting Thursday night.
City officials have distributed fliers to residents in the affected area to alert them to the public works committee meeting at 5:30 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Government building at 10 North Second Street.
The results of the first phase of the study will determine what other tests, if any, are required to fully understand what is causing the sinkholes.
The information revealed at the meeting could help determine if the block is sustainable and what financial assistance may be available to residents.
At least nine homes were condemned along the 1400 block of South 14th after large sinkholes erupted in March, tearing up the street, sidewalks and lawns.
Some residents moved away, but others have remained living inside their possibly unsafe homes because they can't afford to pay their mortgages and pay to stay somewhere else. Most of the residents on the block are homeowners, residents say.
The city and Capital Region Water partnered to hire Gannett Fleming to conduct a geological study of the area, which has been home to numerous sinkholes dating back to 2007, when a large sinkhole swallowed a sport-utility vehicle.
Capital Region officials have previously said indications point to a sinkhole causing their water main to break in March, not the other way around.