Four months after a sinkhole on West Seventh Street near downtown St. Paul shut down the busy thoroughfare, challenging repairs are completed and the road has reopened, city officials said.

Several contractors worked to repair damage to the 30-foot deep sewer tunnel and the surrounding utilities after the sinkhole appeared on May 8. The busy street was closed to through traffic from Kellogg Boulevard to Grand Avenue. The city was able to maintain one lane of traffic on the block for access to businesses.

Officials said the sinkhole was caused by a number of factors that led to the soil above the tunnel to gradually erode, causing “surrounding soil and rock to collapse into the sewer tunnel. These factors included unique subsurface geology and movement of water and sewage leaking above th

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