SEFFNER, Fla. — Engineering crews started repairs Monday on the recently reopened Seffner sinkhole.

Monday, crews filled it with a mixture of gravel and water. The process is slated to take several days.

What You Need To Know

The infamous Seffner sinkhole reopened last week in the Lazy Lane neighborhood.

It is the same spot in Seffner where a sinkhole opened in 2013, and swallowed a home and resident Jeff Bush as he slept in his bed. The body of 37-year-old Bush was never recovered.

The sinkhole also reopened in 2015.

Officials say the benefit of using gravel and water is if this were to repeat again it will happen in the same exact location.

It also allows the county to block off that area sooner because they know where its at.

They say if the hole was filled with concrete, it could rip open a different area instead of the same spot, or make the sinkhole bigger if it were to happen again

“You can potentially get stuck in a game whack a mole where if you fill one hole you plugged it then another one pops up here then another one here we don’t want that if its going to happen let it to where we know its going to happen in an area we can control,” said Jon-Paul Lavandeira Division Director Hillsborough ounty code enforcement.

The sinkhole is currently surrounded by a gate so no one gets too close.

It will take 150 cubic yards of gravel to fill it.

Experts here say since the sinkhole opened it’s been stable so far.

The work is being paid for with public money, so red tape slowed down the process a bit.