BATON ROUGE - Next door neighbors Jane Broussard and Larry Reeves tell me it's the creek behind their homes that's causing their property to form several sinkholes.

"At one time, trying to sell, the excuse I received was 'We don't like what's happening in your backyard.' I said, Well, okay, I don't either," Reeves said.

Larry Reeves moved to his home on Crescent Drive 10 years ago. He says when he first moved in, it was just a small hole in his backyard.

"It just seems like it has grown, and it may be 10 or 12 feet one way, 10 or 12 feet the other way, and six or eight feet deep," Reeves said.

The same hole now has spread into the backyard of his next-door neighbor, Jane Broussard. She says in 2019, she noticed the hole growing bigger.

"And whenever my grandchildren come over, I don't

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