The pit, about 200 cubic feet, is a straight-sided hole in the ground, lined with landscaping cloth and filled with variously sized rocks. It is topped off with larger rocks to emulate a dry creek.

Hurricane Ian magnified the existing frailties around Sanford's vacuum sewer pit system included."Flooding was pretty bad; it didn't get quite in my house over here, but it got real close," said ...

The possibility of an infiltration attempt by some anti-national elements or some terrorist outfit cannot be ruled out, he said. The pit has been filled temporarily by mud and soil, he said.