Sinkhole Incidents On the Rise
"Stretch zones primarily experience sinking ground, as the support in the rock strata is stretched thin. Thus, buildings implode and gas and water mains break." ZetaTalk
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What happens to rock layers under a diagonal pull, or being pulled apart? As can be seen during recent years, this has resulted in derailing trains, sinkholes suddenly appearing, gas and water main breaks, torn roadways and separating bridges. Despite the effect on man, crawling about on the surface of what they assume to be terra firma, these changes are superficial. When the pulling starts, weak points break and thereafter the plumbing and roadways hold, giving the impression that the pulling has stopped, but this is misleading. The North American continent is giving evidence that its rock layers are separating from each other, and sliding sideways in a diagonal, thus exposing portions of these layers to vent into the air above. If rock is being stressed, then where are the earthquake predictors giving evidence of this, the frantic animals, the static on the radio, the earthquake swarms? Rock in the stretch zone, pulling apart rather than compressing, does not emit the particles flows that animals and radios sense, nor register on instruments are tension and release quakes.
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"We have repeatedly stated that the Earth changes will not diminish, but will increase going into the pole shift.
This is not a lineal matter, as the closer Planet X comes to Earth, an inevitable path, the more the torque effect and the polar wobble where the N Pole of Earth is pushed away violently on a daily basis, occur. The wobble will become more pronounced, more violent. The plates are tugged back West of the Atlantic, pulled forward East of the Atlantic, during the daily rotation of the Earth. The North American continent is allowed to roll East during rotation while the S Pole is pulled West, creating the diagonal pull likely to trigger the New Madrid fault line into an adjustment, and soon. The N Pole is pushed away and allowed to bounce back, daily, as the Earth rotates, a wobble that puts stress on all fault lines when the plates are suddenly in motion, and suddenly stopped!
"As there is no other explanation for the effect on the stretch zone, lacking any earthquakes to blame, and as these stretch zone accidents will continue to emerge, and with ferocity, this is a certain clue to those on the fence, that the influence of Planet X is the cause. Or is it Global Warming?"
ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for April 13, 2013
"Sinkholes almost invariably form in areas subject to karst limestone cavern formation. Underground water flows eat away the limestone leaving vast caverns and caves, which often give scant indication above ground that a cavern lies below. Karst limestone rock formations have been mapped and are known, however, but since one never knows just where a cavern might have formed, this provides little help in predicting just where a sinkhole might form. Sinkholes open up when the rock is fractured due to stress from being in the stretch zone, from the bending of a plate, or due to torsion."
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Comment by Howard on September 7, 2011 at 6:57pm
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Large Sinkhole Opens in Wenatchee, Washington
Discovered Sept 6
WENATCHEE — An 8-foot-wide sinkhole at one of the city’s busiest intersections has forced partial closure of a main thoroughfare and redirection of traffic.At 1:30 p.m. today, the under-the-road hole at the corner of Miller Street and North Wenatchee Avenue, near the Igloo Tavern, was being investigated by city crews and traffic signals adjusted to help reroute traffic, said Steve King, city public works director for engineering.
Most traffic has been rerouted onto Mission Street, according to a city emergency traffic advisory. Efforts to estimate damage, excavate the sinkhole and temporarily repair the damage will likely continue into the evening.
Motorists first noticed a depression in the roadway this morning, said King. An initial investigation by city street crews found a “void,” said King, measuring up to 8-feet-wide under the asphalt. He said engineers believe an underground washout could have been caused by nearby irrigation pipe.
Other nearby pipes — sewer and irrigation — may also have been affected.
Meanwhile, at about 1:45 p.m., fire alarms signalling low water pressure sounded at several local businesses, including Walmart and Home Depot, to trigger brief evacuations of the stores. A Home Depot employee said customers waited outside about 10 or 12 minutes before being allowed to return to their shopping.
It was unknown if the sinkhole and the low-pressure alarms were connected.
Motorists are advised to avoid the intersection of Miller Street and Wenatchee Avenue until sinkhole repairs are completed.
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Sinkhole Closes Road to Schools - Roanoke County, Virginia
Discovered Sept 7William Byrd Middle and High Schools are closed after what appeared to be a sinkhole, swallowed up part of the only entrance to the schools.
Two engineers on the scene tell 10 On Your Side that a faulty drain pipe caused the road collapse. They say it's actually not a sinkhole.
Their plan is to put in a temporary fix Wednesday and hopefully reopen schools Thursday. A permanent repair would be made in the coming week.
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Sinkhole Opens in K-mart Parking Lot - St. Albans, West Virginia
Discovered Sept 6ST. ALBANS, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A portion of the K-mart parking lot in St. Albans is blocked off after a sinkhole was reported early Tuesday morning.
According to a news release, the sinkhole is at least five feet deep and about six feet in width.
St. Albans Police say a woman's car nearly fell in it, but no one was hurt.
The property manager of the St. Albans Mall has been notified of the problem. Right now, the area around the sinkhole is blocked with caution tape to alert drivers of the situation.
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Large Sinkhole Opens in Los Altos, California
Discovered September 2
Scores of San Antonio Hills residents lost service most of Friday from a pre-dawn water main break that flooded garages, yards and streets.
The California Water Service Company will restore service by 6 or 7 p.m. Friday to about 50 households in the San Antonio hills area in unincorporated Los Altos, a district manager said.
The pre-dawn water main break sent water flooding down Mora Drive, initially knocking out water service to more than 100 homes and opening up chunks of asphalt on the roadway.
"The plumbing is finished, and now we're putting in new material and road base over it," said Ronald Richardson, district manager for the utility, also known as Cal Water. Crews will put in temporary asphalt, and return over the next two weeks to install more permanent roadway.
The broken water main, an 8-inch pipe at the intersection of Mora Drive and Esberg Road, sent enough water to open a sinkhole at the intersection and inundate a garage and several backyards, including that of resident Peter Stanley.
"I went to the street at 6 a.m. to grab the newspaper and see the flood coming down the street," emailed Stanley, who lives on Mora Drive.
Richardson said that service was first restored to more than 50 percent of the homes initially affected by the break, but Cal Water spent most of Friday repairing the main.
The work attracted the curiosity of neighborhood children, who followed the progress all day. "One had a collection of toy construction equipment," Richardson said. "He had backhoes, bobcats and dump trucks, which was the same as the equipment he could see on the street today."
About 50 households, remained without water service during the repair, that involved replacing a small section of the 8" water main and possibly two valves, Richardson said.
The water company offered free bottled water to residents in the affected area and has disbursed several gallons so far, Richardson added.
The area without water service encompassed:
- Mora Drive (700 block and part of the 800 block)
- Thorsen Court
- Mora Court
- Esberg Road
- Hierra Court
"My wife was in the shower, and I think she got the last one in the neighborhood," Stanley quipped in his email.
Richardson said Cal Water received calls around 6 a.m. and had a crew on the scene within a half hour. Sheriff's deputies were on scene initially, said Sgt. Troy Smith of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department.
Richardson said the company does not yet know the reason for the water main break.
Earlier in the week, the water company had received calls reporting leakage and had investigated, but had not been able to perform repairs. Cal Water sent out an "underground service alert" to utilities that may have lines in the area, such as gas lines, electrical lines and the like, but the utilities had not yet had enough time to respond. Utilities are supposed to mark where their lines are so that Cal Water can use the appropriate equipment in the area.
"We were asking for other utilities to mark the area so we know if there are other utilities such as a gas main—or electrical or fiber optic—in close proximity, so we don't do more damage," he said.
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Large Sinkhole in Galveston, Texas
Discovered August 31
GALVESTON — A waterline rupture the size of a football caused a large sinkhole to form Wednesday on Avenue Q between 44th and 45th streets, forcing maintenance crews to disconnect water service to residents living near the break.
No injuries were reported as a result of the crater in the roadway, Alicia Cahill, a city of Galveston spokeswoman, said.
The city received a report about 11:30 a.m. of a sinkhole that swallowed most of the eastbound lane of Avenue Q.
“It turned out to be a broken 8-inch water line,” Cahill said, noting crews were expected to have water restored Wednesday evening.
Cahill didn’t immediately know how many water customers were affected. Those living on Avenue Q east to 41st Street and north from Avenue P to 43rd Street were without water, she said. Crews were expected to be finished repairing the line about 8 p.m., Cahill said.
At noon, crews were busy draining water from the sinkhole, which was possibly 6 feet deep.
“The blowout on the 8-inch line was the size of a football,” Cahill said. “We can’t rule out drought as a possible cause.”
About 10 other waterline ruptures have been reported in Galveston since March.
The city put up road barricades, blocking Avenue Q traffic around the repair work.
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Truck Plunges into Huge Sinkhole in Passaic, New Jersey
Discovered Sept 1
A sinkhole at Eighth Street and Lodi Street, measuring 20 feet by 30 feet, and up to 20 feet deep, has indefinitely shut down Eighth Street, Police Capt. Russ Capuano said.
The collapse of a section of critical thoroughfare linking Wallington with Passaic threatens to snarel traffic in the area as officials anticipate at least a weeklong repair process.
The roadway connects with Wallington over the Eighth Street bridge. Residents and truck drivers are barred from traveling south on Eighth Street beyond the ShopRite supermarket near South Street, and can’t cross the bridge from Wallington unless they show proof they’re driving to a businesses south of Lodi Street.
An 18-wheel truck traveling Eighth Street fell nose-first into the sinkhole Thursday morning. A brick wall beneath the road prevented the truck from being swallowed whole. It did not appear that the driver was injured, police said.
“There’s no dirt under the street at all,” Capuano said. Police hope that the street will be repaired within a week, but it could take longer.
About a half dozen light industrial businesses south of the collapse still have access to Eighth Street and the ShopRite remains open. But, Wallington residents who shop there will need to traverse a maze of streets, many of which still are still closed because of extensive flooding in the hurricane’s wake.
Police believe the sinkhole resulted from flood damage to the street. Floodwaters had receded from the area when the sinkhole opened up.
A water main below the pavement also may have ruptured at the same time, police said.
“There was probably some slow deterioration over time, but the flood sped it up,” Capauno said.
A police officer will be stationed to at either end of the street until it is repaired. There is a fear that the hole could grow because of the extent of the damage below the street level.
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Sinkhole Swallows Man Cutting His Grass - Cleveland, Ohio
Discovered August 27A man injured after falling into a sinkhole while cutting the grass in Cleveland.
It happened last Saturday on Clark Avenue.
Joe Duncan's entire leg was swallowed by the giant sinkhole. Duncan did have to be transported to the hospital. He has since been treated and released.
Duncan's family and the city have the gaping hole blocked off as a safety precaution until it can be properly fixed.
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Huge Sinkhole Closes Road in Ossining, New York
Discovered August 30
The huge sinkhole on North State Rd. between Pleasantville Rd. and 9A is going to be problem for Ossining and Croton drivers for the foreseeable future (see picture). The sinkhole extends across the entire road and prevents motorists from entering the gas station on the corner.
Briarcliff Manor resident Peter Seissler could be seen taking a look at the huge hole in the road with his daughter. "It's a problem obviously, but there's 'x' amount of manpower in the municipal governments—and so you have to deal with it," said Seissler.
In Ossining cars could be seen driving right though the stoplight at the intersection of Campwoods Rd. and Croton Ave., which has lost power. Many motorists didn't even notice that they were driving right though a traffic signal. Officials say that the stoplight is the only one that is still out in Ossining.
There are currently 1,022 people without power in Ossining right now.
On Ossining's waterfront the owners of The Boathouse Restaurant are moving everything back inside their building. "We had to take everything out of the restaurant. It took a day. We lost food, we lost stuff sure," said the owner of The Boathouse Restaurant Val Polidoro. She says she hopes the restaurant will be open by tomorrow night or Thursday.
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Mysterious Sinkhole Opens at YMCA Soccer Field - Wilmington, North Carolina
Discovered August 29Wilmington Family YMCA employees were in for a surprise Monday morning: a 15-foot-wide sinkhole in their soccer field.
No one knows what exactly spawned the hole, which was neatly round and between 7 and 10 feet deep.
"It still seems to be a little bit of a mystery," said Kelly Pittman, the YMCA's resource development director.
The YMCA hired contractors to come investigate the sinkhole and fill it.
Wesley Corder, a project engineer with Thomson & Co., said he could not identify a cause. Corder probed more than 16 feet down from the surface and found no evidence of water from an old well or some other structure. He has seen sinkholes in Castle Hayne, but not in Wilmington.
He said there is about two feet of clay at the surface, then sand below it. If the sand gets wet, he said, it can liquefy and create a sinkhole.
"Typically, they happen after a major rain event," he said. Over the weekend, Hurricane Irene dumped at least 7 inches of rain on Wilmington as it churned offshore.
"Obviously, there's some cause," said Dick Jones, the YMCA's chief executive officer, while looking into the hole.
Tuesday morning, a backhoe was packing down dirt into the hole. Jones said soccer starts in two weeks, so they wanted the hole filled. The YMCA happened to be closed this week for regular maintenance.
"This was an unexpected project," Jones said, smiling. "It wasn't on our list of to-dos."
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Sinkhole Closes Road in Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Discovered August 28
A sinkhole off of Route 22 in Lopatcong Township has closed two westbound lanes of the highway, and police said the closures could last until late in the evening.
The sinkhole developed in the parking lot of Meineke Car Center between South Fourth and South Fifth streets.
Lopatcong Township police said two of the three traffic lanes are closed, and are expected to remain blocked until midnight.
Lopatcong Township officials said the problem is a broken sewer line and crews are at the site.
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