The Metropolitan Sewer District is launching an improvement project in the East End for sewer infrastructure that has previously failed and caused sinkholes in the neighborhood.
The project will construct a junction chamber in Riverside Drive, relocating two combined sewer overflow outfalls south of the roadway. A new 60-inch outfall pipe to the Ohio River will be constructed, and a new access driveway will also be installed.
In 2021, the 60-inch water main located there — one of the largest in the Greater Cincinnati Water Works system — broke and created a sinkhole so wide and deep that it swallowed a car parked along Riverside.
Once that was fixed, a secondary break happened a month later. The second break reopened the sinkhole, causing a construction vehicle to fall in…