BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — An elementary school in Bowling Green is closed on Wednesday after a massive sinkhole opened under the school's parking lot.
Brandon Jarrett posted a photo of the sinkhole under Cumberland Trace Elementary on social media Tuesday evening.
According to WBKO, our ABC affiliate in Bowling Green, Warren County Schools is now working to stop the sinkhole from growing larger while repairing damage to the school grounds.
District officials said they first noticed the sinkhole in the spring. It started as a small hole in the asphalt and eventually grew into the major issue it is now.
Officials expect the repairs to cost up to $80,000.
Chris McIntire, a spokesperson for Warren County Schools, said the photo posted to social media shows the in-progress repairs.
"The amount of footage you have to go down is the amount you have to go out and to the side," he said. "So a 40-foot sinkhole means we have to go 40 feet out and wide from where we think the wall is and from where they're digging. It's more of a safety precaution."
This isn't the first large sinkhole to appear in Bowling Green.
Just five miles north of the elementary school, a large sinkhole made national headlines after it collapsed under the National Corvette Museum in 2014.
It took nearly a year and $3.2 million to repair the damage caused.
Some cars involved were damaged beyond repair while others were restored and are back on display today.
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