I will forward this to our inspector to check if a County tree root issue is causing the situation with the sidewalk; otherwise whomever owns the property that abuts the sidewalk is responsible for the maintenance. It looks from the picture it's just a situation of settling ground underneath the sidewalk, but I will show this to the inspector.

Thank you!
Shirley

DPW HWYS Shirley S assigned this issue to Wayne D

Thank you for your response. The sidewalk has been there since at least 1995. The problem originated since 2010 and has been increasingly getting worse. We believe that the ground underneath the sidewalk has settled because the Howard County snow removal crew dumped a huge amount of snow on that portion of the sidewalk after the big blizzard of 2010. This has caused the sidewalk to sink. We have photos of the pile of snow dumped. Please let me know how I can provide you more photos/ information.

Thanks!

Thank you for submitting your request to the Howard County Department of Public Works. Our staff will investigate this issue and respond.

Sidewalk has been redone. Thank you Howard County Department of Public Works!

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