Residents in a southern Manitoba community have been forced to drive around a section of road obliterated by a washout for the past six months — and local officials fear the fix won't be cheap.

A gap began to form in April on Pleasant Valley Road near Rosenort, according to Mervin Dueck, deputy reeve for the Rural Municipality of Morris.

By May, it had expanded quickly, and is now a chasm roughly six metres deep, nine metres wide close to 30 metres in length, he said.

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"Essentially, it's a culvert [under the road] that let go — either rusted or separated — and it creates a cavern underneath, and it just slowly erodes," said Dueck.

For some residents in Rosenort — a community of about 800 that's approximately 50 kilometres south

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