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Late Saturday night, 30 feet below the parking lot, a storm drain broke, causing the asphalt and soil to crumble, and form a sinkhole 25 feet in diameter.
The storm water system then clogged, flooding Barnes Lake Road.
"We wanted to see that Barnes Lake Road was open for traffic," said Mike Turley, North Huntingdon Township interim manager. "But the shopping center is private property."
North Huntingdon and Westmoreland County officials worked through Sunday and Monday to pump water off of Barnes Lake Road, while the shopping center has hired a company to fix the sinkhole.
"It was just an anomaly," said Philip Schneider, the Lamar Co. asset manager for the shopping center.
Schneider said the recent storms were too much for the 30-year-old storm water system.
The shopping center is still open.
"Safety is our first concern, which is why we have barriers up even though the area is stabilized," Schneider said.
The only inconvenience has been some minor parking constraints in front of Aldi's and The Children's Institute.
"But tenants can still get to their businesses and shoppers can get to the tenants," Schneider said. "The center is still open for business."
"It was just an anomaly"!