Whenever it rains, water gushes up out of the road like a geyser at 8th Street and Bridgeview Place in LeClaire, sending sand and sediment flowing down the street.
Neighbors say when it's done, the sidewalk is left looking like this with chunks of soil eroded out from underneath. They tell TV6 they've gone to the city with their problems, but no one can give them a clear answer on when or if this problem will be fixed.
"Our main concern is mostly when it rains, there seems to be a massive amount of flooding and unfortunately we live at the end of the street so we see a lot of it," Debbie Kane says.
She says the sediment coming out of the street is what's worrisome. She and other neighbors are afraid too much soil has eroded underneath.
"There was a sinkhole, a collapse in the street a year or two ago in another part of this neighborhood," she says, "That's my concern, what is happening under the street here and what could it potentially lead to?"
Neighbors here say they have been contacting the city since 2009 to get it fixed, and a petition with 40 signatures has been turned in to the mayor. So far, it seems nothing has been done.
"It pretty much keeps running, and I think we're supposed to get rain this week so we'll probably see it again," Kane says.
The city says it has tried patchwork here and there to plug the holes, but it's only a temporary fix. The mayor and city administrator tell TV6 $160,000 in the budget has been set aside to fix the problem, but they don't want to move forward until they can figure out the best and cheapest solution.
They're waiting to see how solutions from other cities with the same problem, like Dubuque, pan out. Neighbors here are just hoping a permanent solution comes in time.
"If something more is going underneath, we would be unsafe walking around, driving, there's a number of concerns that could come because of that," Kane says.
