A falling wall of earth that threatened a giant pipe feeding the city’s water supply has been stabilized as officials planned to meet to decide on the next step.

“It is a temporary fix,” said Kavanaugh Breazeale, spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which worked with the City of Vicksburg throughout the weekend to correct the problem discovered Friday morning.

“It’s stable, but it’s not resolved,” City of Vicksburg Public Works director Bubba Rainer said this morning. “My concern right now is to come up with a permanent solution.”

Breazeale said at mid-morning that a meeting scheduled for today had not been held, but Rainer expected one later this morning.

The land shift discovered Friday surrounds a 36-inch concrete water pipe that carries water in to the city from its water plant at E.W. Haining Industrial Center.

Along Washington Street where the shift was noticed, the pipe is yards from where excavation work has begun for a Corps of Engineers Interpretive Center to accompany the MV Mississippi IV, which was moved onto land last year.

During the weekend, Breazeale said the biggest fear associated with the sinking was heavy rain. No rain was in the forecast until the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

Throughout the day and into the night on Friday, dump trucks hauled sand to the site to shore up the dirt wall west of Washington Street between Grove and Main streets.

The 36-inch main water line along Washington Street splits into two 24-inch lines near Jackson and later branches into webs of 8-, 10- and 18-inch lines that feed the city and some of the private water districts that cover Warren County.

Cracks in Washington Street have kept the street at Grove and Main closed to traffic since Friday.