It also noted the presence of: $(6$)The towers' interior columns and elevator pits, pumps and drainage lines.

Then, there are sewer lines, elevator pits and required postings of visits by pest control companies.

This place is black as the bottom of an elevator pit.

"There's no physical damage to the Vista but we need to shore up the mechanical areas below it, including an elevator pit," Mr. Maikish said.

The elevator pit could contain approximately 10 tonnes of grain, which would be about the load delivered by one farmer's grain truck.

A mysterious leak has sent water pouring into the elevator pit of a Manhattan building for more than a year, the building's owner has complained.

A pump he installed in January has been continuously removing 100 gallons a minute from the elevator pit, he said.

This includes elevator pits, elevator penthouses, piping or equipment catwalks, cooling towers, and utility tunnels.

The ship also experienced problems with flooding in the forward elevator pit.

The elevator pit was on fire with the jet fuel.