Progress at the sinkhole in Fraser

Large pipes ready to be installed at the sinkhole.

A crane and heavy machinery at the work site.

Mariann Cotey, of Fraser, talks about cutting back on water use due to the sink hole a couple blocks away from her home.

Wayne Oehmke, business development specialist working on the sinkhole, takes a break at the Senior Center.

Construction workers from the sinkhole site take a lunch break at the Fraser Senior Center.

Contruction workers from the sink hole eat Arby's on their break, as a way to support local business that are losing customers due to the road closures.

Work being done at the sinkhole site on 15 Mile and Hayes roads.

Firas Albanosha, native of Iraq, works at a car wash right across from the Fraser sinkhole.

Large pipes ready to be installed at the sinkhole site.

Construction workers with drilling equipment at the sinkhole site.

Large pipes and heavy equipment at the sinkhole site.

Large drilling equipment at the site of the sinkhole.

Crews work in the area of the sinkhole behind a sewer by-pass line on Dec. 29, 2016. Fifteen Mile between Utica and Hayes is closed as construction and utility crews rebuild a sanitary sewer line. A giant sinkhole developed beneath a house on the southeast corner of 15 Mile and Eberlein on Christmas Eve day, causing the house to partially buckle. Several area residents were evacuated as the mayor of Fraser placed the area under a state of emergency, allowing the city to apply for special funding.

Workers operate a drill before they install a dewatering well.

Workers operate a drill before installing a dewatering well in front of the house that is partially falling into the sinkhole on the southeast corner of 15 Mile and Eberlein.

This is the house that is partially falling into the sinkhole on the southeast corner of 15 Mile and Eberlein.

Workers operate a drill before they install a dewatering well.

Consumer Energy employees work at the scene amid sewer bypass pipes.

This is a sewer bypass pipe.

Paula Giacona, 52, of Harsens Island, rings up bottles of hair spray for a professional customer at the Windsor Beauty Supply Inc. store, where she is a district manager. She wants customers to know that her business is still open in the Fraser Square shopping plaza on the southeast corner of 15 Mile and Hayes during the sinkhole repair.

Lynn Luxury Nails owner Lynn Van, left, of Sterling Heights, and customer Ann Marie Vandro, of Clinton Township, talk to a district manager at the Windsor Beauty Supply Inc. store in Fraser Square shopping plaza on the southeast corner of 15 Mile and Hayes. Businesses in this shopping plaza are open during the sinkhole repair.

Paula Giacona talks with a Detroit News reporter.

Lynn Luxury Nails owner Lynn Van, of Sterling Heights, talks to a Detroit News reporter.

Lynn Luxury Nails owner Lynn Van, center, and customer Ann Marie Vandro, left, talk to Windsor Beauty Supply Inc. store district manager Paula Giacona, as they buy beauty supplies in the Fraser Square shopping plaza on the southeast corner of 15 Mile and Hayes. Businesses in this shopping plaza are open during the sinkhole repair.

Extra sewer bypass pipes are stacked up just west of the sinkhole construction site along 15 Mile.

Bypass sewer lines come out of a manhole on the northeast corner of 15 Mile and Hayes.

DTE Energy apprentice lineman Nate Woodward, 30, of Lexington, drills a hole in this utility pole as he and co-workers build a temporary electrical line across 15 Mile from the sinkhole.