Earth Changes and the Pole Shift
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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Howard
Giant Sinkhole in Clermont County, Ohio
Discovered June 21st
Crews will spend several days repairing a sinkhole that opened up after Tuesday's heavy rain and storms.
The sinkhole is located in the Ashley Meadows neighborhood in Mount Carmel.
The hole started as only about 4 to 5 feet wide, but has grown to about 20 feet wide and about 8 to 10 feet deep on Wednesday morning.
The road is currently blocked, affecting about 40 homes that are located near the hole. Residents are having to drive in the grass to make it around.
Crews will first have to repair the storm drain and piping before the refill the hole and repave the road. It will take several days to fix.
Jun 22, 2011
Howard
Massive Sinkhole Collapses Busy Street - Cleveland, Ohio
Discovered June 20th
A segment of the 84-year-old brick waterway beneath the busy street gave way, eroding the roadbed and eventually causing the asphalt surface to cave in. The result is a hole big enough to swallow an SUV, although the abyss didn't claim any drivers before workers cordoned it off. The cavity is in Carnegie's center turn-lane near E. 65th St.
James Owens, The Plain DealerOfficials are uncertain what caused the tunnel segment to crumble, but suspect it was age.
"With all the rain we're getting this spring, you could speculate the water and everything else caused some bricks to get loose," said Alan Seifullah, a spokesman for Cleveland Public Utilities. Such failures are "not that rare. It's the same with water main breaks. We have an aging system."
Engineers are still assessing the extent of damage to the stormwater/sanitary sewer using remote cameras, Seifullah said. The collapse of the three-foot-diameter tunnel segment likely will require its replacement with a concrete pipe. If workers find no additional problems, the repairs will take about one week, he said. Crews will have to refill the 16-foot-deep cavity and repair the road's surface.
Traffic is reduced to one lane in either direction while the work is underway.
While the culprit in this case was a defective pipeline, sinkholes can form from a variety of causes, both manmade and natural.
Water is often the mechanism, whether from a broken main, an underground aquifer or stormwater runoff. If subsurface rock is water-soluble - such as limestone, carbonates or salt beds - the flow gradually can hollow out a void. Until the cavity reaches a critical size, the surface above remains intact, giving little warning of collapse.
Jun 22, 2011
Howard
Discovered June 21st
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The problem began with a hole that first developed behind Adams Heating and Cooling back in April and spread to the neighboring business, Plants by Wolfangel. It quickly swallowed up equipment and asphalt. And yesterday, when new rains overflowed into the area, the pavement caved in even further and cut off the plant shop from the nursery, washing away roses and other valuable plants.
It's believed that beneath the holes is a damaged eight foot wide drain pipe. The owner of Adams Heating and Cooling wouldn't go on camera today but told Local 12 Reporter Angenette Levy that he has been working since the sinkhole appeared to fix the pipe.
Huge pumps, meanwhile, are trying to keep up with the water filling the holes.
Jun 24, 2011
Howard
Discovered June 22nd
On Monday, officials noticed cracks forming on the side of the building on First Street.
It sits next to the city hall and houses some of the street department's equipment.
On Wednesday, ten-foot wide sinkhole opened up, leading to more cracks.
"If the sinkhole opens up anymore, it could definitely fall. So we're keeping everybody out. And there are still things inside, but I guess that will just have to stay," said Jerry Hooper, New Tazewell Building Inspector.
Officials have declared the 90-year-old building to be a safety hazard and they will tear it down as soon as they hear back from an insurance company.
Jun 24, 2011
Howard
Discovered June 22
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Heavy rains triggered a sinkhole which swallowed two vehicles and ended up claiming two lives. Torrential rains led to high water near the highway and that water weakened the road, creating the sinkhole. Water poured over the road and two drivers attempted to cross the flooded roadway, not knowing that the ground beneath it had been washed out.
Steve Manger – Lyman County Sheriff: “This is the first time I've ever seen anything like this before its just amazing the force of mother nature it's just a sad, very sad deal.”
The 56 year old driver of the van was a Chamberlain woman, found dead inside her vehicle. The driver of the car was a 61 year old woman from Lower Brule. Her body was found four miles down stream.
Jun 24, 2011
Howard
Discovered June 16th
TARPON SPRINGS — After the appearance of a 50-foot-deep sinkhole, S Disston Avenue and nearby Dorsett Park will remain closed because boring samples and ground-penetrating radar revealed "anomalies" underground that must be repaired or further studied.
The city called in a geotechnical engineering firm, Tierra Inc. of Tampa, last week after a sinkhole opened up in the street in front of 709 S Disston Ave. on June 16. Tierra also was asked to examine depressions in the soil at Dorsett Park that were noticed the following day.
The city filled in the Disston Avenue sinkhole, using 25 dump-truck-loads of sand. However, the street can't be reopened to traffic because of what Tierra found when it examined the area.
The company drilled in a 150- by 90-foot area, probing more than 50 feet below the roadway surface. The tests found several indicators that limestone below the ground had collapsed.
Sinkholes in Florida often are caused when limestone lying deep underground collapses and the soil above it funnels downward, leaving a crater on the surface.
Before the road will be safe for travel, the ground will need to be injected with a special grout that will increase the density of the soil and make it more resistant to collapse, Tierra wrote in a report to the city. Tierra estimates the work will cost roughly $35,000.
"We anticipate that the roadway will be closed for approximately one more week until these remediation efforts are complete and have been thoroughly inspected," Tarpon Springs spokeswoman Judy Staley said Friday.
The city doesn't know when popular Dorsett Park, about a block away from the Disston Avenue sinkhole, will reopen. A preliminary examination of the park by Tierra showed "subsurface anomalies," not just beneath the visible depressions there, but also in other parts of the park where there are no depressions.
Drilling and other tests will be done next week to get a better idea of what's happening beneath the surface at Dorsett Park, Staley said. In addition to several depressions, the city found cracks in the park's tennis court. The park is now off-limits to visitors.
Another property also was affected by the sinkhole activity on June 16. Several sinkholes opened in the yard of 709 S Disston Ave., where Nathaniel Crawford, 90, and his wife, Virginia, 83, had lived since 1957. The Crawfords and several relatives fled the house as the ground opened up.
The city has advised the Crawfords not to move back into their house yet.
The Crawfords had sinkhole insurance and are waiting for information from their insurance company about the cost and feasibility of repairs.
Jun 25, 2011
Howard
Discovered June 21st
Crews are working to repair a sinkhole on Laurel View Drive in Union Township.
Service Director Matt Taylor said the hole was created after a 48-inch pipe broke during the rain Tuesday, June 21. The hole is 20 feet wide and 18 feet deep, he said.
The Union Township trustees passed four resolutions during the regular meeting Thursday, June 23. Trustee Tim Donnellon said the resolutions are for four separate things – declaring the situation an emergency and authorizing the township to pay for supplies, materials and equipment.
Each resolution is for an amount not to exceed $50,000, but it could cost more than that combined, Donnellon said. All together, the amount can be no more than $200,000.
“We believe the final cost will be around $50,000 for contracted service,” said Ken Geis, township administrator.
“We don’t know exactly what the cost will be … but the (resolutions) have been approved by the law director,” Donnellon said.
Construction crews already were working Thursday and a temporary road had been built for residents. Laurel View Drive is the only way to reach about 40 homes. The homes are off Tina Drive and Bells Lane, near Crosspointe Baptist Church.
Geis said the resolutions also eliminates the need to bid the work, since it’s an emergency.
Trustee Matt Beamer was glad to see the administration’s fast action.
“This needs to be fixed ASAP,” he said Thursday. “I was out there twice yesterday and it needs to be fixed for the safety of our residents – for driving and for police and fire.”
An estimate of how long the project would take was not immediately available.
Jun 25, 2011
Howard
@ Fernando - The presence of Planet X is causing the Earth's core to roil, heating the oceans and land from the bottom. While the oceans expand as the water temperature rises, the Earth's crust will also.
"What is missing from this equation is swelling of land masses, land surface under the water, as odd as this concept might sound. Metal is known to expand when heated, but the concept of hot mud being larger in volume than cold mud has not been considered, as it has never been a concern of man’s. Heat is particles in motion, and they bump atoms about so that expansion is the result. All land surface will be heated due to the swirling of the core, the heat to the extent that it can escape into the land surface doing so. The result? This surface will expand, crevasses opening, flaky layers of rock separating, and buckling occurring that creates spaces in the interior of rock. Under the oceans, this equates to a higher ocean bottom, with the water needing to go someplace, and as the bottom is moving up, the sea level can only go up also. Thus, where this cannot be computed by man, being a missing dynamic in his statistics, this is the explanation for why our 675 foot rise does not compute given the known factors - water volume and increase per degree of heat rise." ZetaTalk
Jun 28, 2011
Howard
Large Sinkhole Discovered in Fairfield Township - Ohio
Discovered July 2nd
Workers for the Butler County Engineers Office closed the intersection of Hamilton Mason and Morris Roads late Saturday night.
Barriers and road closure signs were placed in the area to help drivers get around the closure.
Repairs to the road were expected to be made sometime this week.
Jul 3, 2011
Howard
Discovered April 2011
MARIETTA - Faye McBee, a grandmother of three who lives in a cozy one-story house at the corner of Wright and Henderson streets, received an alarming message in April from the man who cuts her grass.
"He said, 'there's a hole under the driveway,'" said McBee, who lives with her Pomeranian, Libby.
"I got down and started looking under the driveway on my belly, lying on it, and it was a cavern under there," she said.
The earth beneath her concrete driveway was gone.
"It's a wonder it didn't collapse," she said. "It was just concrete and air."
McBee called the city, which sent a crew to remove the suspended portion of concrete and filled the crevice with gravel.
Workers discovered that a four-foot square storm drainage pipe runs 11 feet under her driveway and the house next door before heading under Wright Street and dumping it in the creek across the street.
Portions of the culvert had collapsed, said Dan Conn, the city's public works director.
Conn said the culvert would have been installed after her house was built, which McBee said was around the time of WWII.
"It couldn't take the water flow and pressure from all these businesses," McBee said, pointing to the 150-bedroom Henderson Arms senior housing high-rise building located behind her. "When they put that (culvert) in, there might have been five houses on this street and vacant land. Nothing else was here. It was pecan groves. And then they built all this stuff ... There's just too much water coming into this for this old thing to hold."
A spring storm washed all the gravel down the pipe and into the creek, she said.
So McBee called the city again, and the city again came out and filled the crevice with gravel again, in addition to offering to repair the culvert on two conditions: The first is that both McBee and her neighbor, Brenna Bentley Bitler, a Mount Paran Christian School counselor, had to sign an agreement not to hold the city liable if the repairs didn't work. The second condition was that they had to pay the city $2,896.
McBee objected.
"I don't think it's mine," she said. "It's not my responsibility. It's an old, decrepit 100-year-old culvert that somebody should have known was under there."
A second thunderstorm then washed out the second batch of gravel. With each rain, the hole gets worse, she said.
"All the neighbors are saying, "'Oh God, you're going to clog up the creek. You're going to flood the whole neighborhood down here,' so I told Mr. Conn 'don't put any more gravel in the hole,'" she said.
Brenna Bitler's husband, Brian, said he and his wife have moved to his house in Fulton County to escape.
"Every time it starts raining, I really start sweating," he said. "At some point the foundation of the house is going to give way."
Now that the crevice has gotten worse, the city wants $13,424 to repair the pipe, Conn said.
Bitler wants to accept the deal. McBee doesn't.
"I don't think it's right that we should have to pay a dime, and I don't think it's right that we should have to sign this piece of paper," McBee said. "But on the other hand, I don't want these kids (Brian and Brenna Bitler) ... to have to suffer."
Councilman Johnny Sinclair, who represents the area, said she needs to sign the indemnity agreement and wouldn't support an agreement between her and the city if she didn't.
"Even if we fixed it, we can't take ownership of the pipe or the problem," Sinclair said. "The city didn't build the pipe, nor did we build the houses, but we want to do everything we can to help the homeowners, because eventually if the problem spins out of control it will threaten the public infrastructure."
City Councilman Philip Goldstein said he is also opposed to the city fixing the culvert if McBee doesn't sign the waiver.
"What she wants the city to do is fund and guarantee that her problem is going to be taken care of, and it's not the city taxpayers' responsibility," Goldstein said.
McBee, who has multiple sclerosis, said she can't take much more.
"I just can't do it anymore," she said. "I'm thinking about saying, 'OK, just put a lien on my house,' because I have no money. I don't have $3,000. I don't have 3,000 cents."
Jul 3, 2011
Howard
Sinkhole Opens on McKnight Blvd - Calgary, Alberta
Discovered July 7th
The sinkhole appear in the two westbound lanes of McKnight Blvd. and 2 St. NW at around 6 a.m. and shut down traffic to only one lane.
City crews are on site repairing the broken main and expect the repairs to be finished on Saturday, July 9.
The roadway should reopen on Sunday.
The City wants to remind drivers to use caution when in any construction zone and thanks them for their patience in dealing with this problem.
Jul 18, 2011
Howard
Big Sinkhole Growing Larger in St. Louis, Missouri
Discovered July 7th
Jean Parshall says a driver first noticed the hole in the 300 block of Vida Avenue last Thursday (July 7). They notified county police and road crews quickly showed up and filled the hole with rock.
But as the days went by, the hole got bigger and repairs have yet to be made.
"It's a hazard for the kids, for the people that come down, and come off of Morris and don't see it, and it could be really dangerous, and I don't know if it's going to get bigger than it has, but it's been getting a little bit bigger every day," Parshall said.
Workers with the Metropolitan Sewer District showed up Thursday to survey the damage. They were aware of the hole, but say with recent rains, MSD repair crews are stretched to the limit.
"This is just one aspect of dealing with the weather that we've been experiencing here, and certainly we are at our max right now, but we are continue to serve the public, and those times when we do fail, maybe we are a little bit curt with folks, we do ask folks to remember we are human too, but we are there to do our best, and we are there to serve the community," said Lance LeComb, MSD spokesman.
That afternoon, MSD put up stronger barricades around the hole. They say it may take up to 30 days to repair the damage.
Jul 18, 2011
Howard
Large Sinkhole Opens in Downtown Knoxville, Tennessee
Discovered July 8th
The hole is near the intersection with Summitt Hill Drive, though Locust is the only street that is currently closed.
KUB crews are there working on repairing the break. They say no customers are currently without water. A fire hydrant on Locust has been affected by the outage.
Jul 18, 2011
Howard
Geyser Erupts from Sinkhole in Northeast Calgary, Alberta
Discovered July 14th
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A sinkhole opened up beside the home on Rundlehorn Drive and 40th Street N.E. after a water main burst, shooting water up to 40 metres in the air around 2:00p.m.
At least one home has been significantly damaged. The roof has been damaged, the basement is flooded and its attached garage has been blown open. Crews are checking to see if the structural integrity of the building is compromised.
The pipe that burst was a 24” concrete main feeder line for the community. Under 90 PSI of pressure, the pipe spewed millions of litres of water into the nearby home and into streets and alleyways, transforming them into rivers.
Early Thursday evening, the alley was under two feet of water.
The pipe was installed in the 1970s and was designed to last 75 years.
Residents who live on either side of the rental unit say they are shocked and worried about damages to their homes.
“We’re very concerned about the electricity, as well as about the house right over here, as well about if the garage is going to tip over,” says Rodayna Traya, who lives next door.
“Rocks flying, garbage bags just floating around the river, we call it. We have a Niagara Falls here in Calgary. It’s pretty scary.”
Three homes were evacuated as a precaution.
The city tells Global News it is not legally responsible for the damages to the homes since the break was an unpreventable incident.
Water continued to flow out of the pipe as of 5:00p.m. Thursday.
The city says it can’t immediately shut off the water because it could cause more damage in other parts of the pipe.
Jul 18, 2011
Howard
Giant Sinkhole Closes Highway 87 in San Jose, California
Discovered July 14th
The far right lane of the freeway and the Alma Avenue offramp were closed for repair work after a 30-by-30-foot hole was reported just before 3 a.m., CHP Officer Kevin Bartlett said.
It took until 4 p.m., just in time for afternoon rush hour, for Caltrans crews to fill in the hole and reopen the lane.
"You don't really plug up a 30-foot pothole that quickly," Bartlett said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the hole. Further repairs may be necessary in the future.
Jul 18, 2011
Howard
Huge Sinkhole Near High School - Spring Hill, Tennessee
Discovered July 11th
Geotechnical engineers are searching for the cause of a 60-foot-long, 18-foot-wide and 14-foot-deep hole discovered earlier this week, said Director of Construction and Facilities Kevin Fortney.
Fortney described the large sinkhole to school board members Thursday night at their work session, joking that it was not part of the school’s swimming program.
Repairing the hole could cost $85,000, Fortney added.
Officials are trying to determine if the sinkhole is naturally occurring or the result of a construction detail gone wrong.
If it’s determined that the hole is the result of a construction mishap, repair costs would be the responsibility of the contractor overseeing the project.
Repairs to the sinkhole are under way and may be completed by the end of the week. But it’s a bit of a headache for workers who are trying to finish up the school in time for an August opening.
Furniture is being moved into the school, and staff has just made the transition.
Sinkholes are a common phenomenon in Middle Tennessee. The county has several underground springs that run through the bedrock, a factor in creating sinkholes.
Jul 19, 2011
Howard
Massive Sinkhole Continues To Grow - Leesburg, Florida
Discovered June 2011
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The hole is in the middle of a Leesburg neighborhood and it has already swallowed up a beauty supply business. The roof of the store is now underground.
The hole first caved in last month. It started as a 60 foot hole at the intersection of Main Street and East Street, destroying the corner of a strip mall.
Residents told WFTV the hole started growing again this week and has gotten bigger every night.
"I’m third house down from the store and I’m scared for my sister and her family,” said Frenchie Burks.
Now, cracks in the asphalt stemming from the hole appear to be growing, and people say it is once again creeping closer and closer to their neighborhood.
“Some people are talking about it might get bigger and the houses might cave in…It's dangerous,” said Trina Jean.
Officials said the neighborhood is filled with children, and the city put up fencing to keep them away from the massive hole.
Some people who live on the block said it's getting closer and closer to their homes and some more of the street has fallen in, but officials said the ground under that blacktop had already collapsed when the sinkhole first opened.
"We have measurements that we've been following with the hole, and noticing that it has not grown. We've not noticed any growth or observed any growth of the hole,” said a city official.
The land owner ran a beauty supply business and convenience store out of the building. Officials said the owner is working with his insurance company and a contractor to fix the problem.
The city expects what's left of the building will have to be removed, but they're not setting a time limit.
Jul 21, 2011
Howard
Large Sinkhole in Council Bluffs, Iowa
Discovered July 21
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When Council Bluffs resident Everett Thiles left his home for an afternoon appointment, his driveway and the road were completely intact. However in the few hours he was gone, all of that changed.
"It was all fine, then come back at 5:30 and we have about a six-inch drop, but very noticeable -- it's been dropping ever since," Thiles said.
This sinkhole now spans the entire width of 26th Street. It started to destroy some of Thiles' driveway as well. The collapse of a sewer is to blame for the massive sinkhole.
"Well, about a week ago we had a sanitary sewer collapse in this location," director of community development, Don Gross, said.
This sinkhole is not the first to plague Council Bluffs residents. Gross faults high ground water tables for the recurrence.
"When the water table is high it surrounds these pipes underground and that water seeks out cracks," Gross said.
This process eventually creates a cavity underground, leading to a collapse. As long as the water remains high there's a chance residents will see more sinkholes.
"We do anticipate to see more of it. I can't say that we're going to see 20 or 10, but we've had eight sewer collapses so far," Gross said.
The city is already arranging repairs on the sinkhole, but in the meantime, neighbors plan to keep a close eye on it.
"It concerns me, but doesn't really scare me. Can't mess with nature," Thiles said.
Repairs for the large sinkhole should run about $217,000, and the city hopes to begin restoration soon. However, they are anticipating more sewer collapses in the near future.
Jul 22, 2011
Howard
Massive Sinkhole in San Diego, California
Discovered July 21
It happened Friday night, when a water main broke at Twin Peaks Road and Budwin Lane.
Authorities temporarily shut down traffic around the sinkhole as water flooded nearby streets. No homes were damaged.
Officials are still trying to determine what caused the rupture.
Neighbors say the street was re-surfaced earlier this week.
Jul 22, 2011
Howard
Huge Sinkhole Swallows Road in Louisiana
Discovered July 22
An open joint in a sewer pipe is to blame for the formation of a huge sinkhole in Jefferson Parish.
The opening in the ground formed on Friday, when the dirt beneath the asphalt shifted and left a void beneath the surface of the street near the intersection of Clearview Parkway and West Napoleon.
Crews spent the afternoon filling in the giant hole and traffic was expected to return to normal by Friday evening.
Jul 25, 2011
Howard
20-ft Sinkhole in Palatine - Chicago, Illinois
Discovered July 23
The hole, right below Hicks Road, was caused by a sewer line that collapsed following storms on Saturday that brought flooding and a record amount of rain.
The fire department told Palatine residents it could be nearly a week before the sinkhole is repaired, saying the sewer line needs to be fixed before construction starts on the road.
Hicks was closed from Rand to Dundee Road, and traffic was reduced to one lane in each direction.
A flood warning remained in effect Monday as flooded roadways continued to be cleaned up.
On Sunday in Wheeling, neighbors were back out with sandbags, dealing once again with an overflowing retention pond that ruined basements recently remodeled from the last flood.
Hicks Road Sinkhole Could Take Another Month To Fix
The damaged sewer line and sinkhole that has closed part of Hicks Road will likely not be fixed for three or four more weeks.
Sergio Serafino, an engineer with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, said the damage to the sewer line was much worse than first thought.
Workers lowered a video camera into the sewer line Friday and discovered that more extensive work will be needed to repair the line. The damaged sewer line created a sinkhole that extended under the southbound lanes of Hicks Road near Dundee Road.
Hicks is down to one lane of two-way traffic in the area.
The sinkhole formed after 5.5 inches of rain fell in about a three hour period July 23. Previously, Sanjay Patel, north plant manager for the water district, said an evaluation of what caused the damage to the sewer line was ongoing.
Originally, officials believed that the sewer line and sinkhole could be repaired by Aug. 8. The plan was to repair the sewer line, fix the sinkhole, and then replace the part of Hicks Road that the sinkhole formed under.
The sewer line is located about 30 feet underground and is 69 inches in diameter.
Repairs have proved challenging from the start, Serafino said, adding that soil in the area was not good for the work they were doing. Early on officials realized they would need to install I-beams which slowed things down for several days, Serafino said.
The village of Palatine does not have jurisdiction over the sewer line. Also, the road is the jurisdiction of the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Jul 26, 2011
Starr DiGiacomo
Large Sinkhole in Carman, Manitoba
Discovered July 25
Town of Carman work crews were called out to 2nd Ave SE near the corner of First Street SE after receiving a call about a large sinkhole approximately six feet by five feet and about five feet deep, on the street.
Sonja Morrison, who lives near the site with her family, said they heard a "thump" and then a second louder one when they went outside their home to take a look at around 5:15 p.m. on Monday (July 25).
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"By the time we came out it had fully collapsed," Morrison said. "It was fairly deep as well."
And after viewing the scene they were concerned about more damage underneath the street.
"I was a little worried about the amount of support under the road and if it would collapse further," she said.
Morrison said someone had called town work crews and they were on the scene "within minutes". The town workers closed off the road and remained at the scene overnight until construction crews arrived.
She added the construction crews have since torn up a larger part of the street for a major repair.
Over A Galvanized Sewer Pipe
The town's chair of works and operations, Coun. Brad Johnston said from their initial investigation, the part of the road that sank was over top of a galvanized sewer pipe.
"It would appear that sometime in the past they tried to repair it before with a galvanized pipe but those things just don't last as long," Johnston said. "There's a great big hole there this morning (Tuesday)."
He said from their initial reports a vehicle went over the area and softened the surface a little and then another vehicle went over it and sank a little further with some minor damage to the vehicle.
However, there were no injuries.
Johnston noted the town has a camera system and will be checking out other streets for potential problem areas.
He said while they didn't have an exact time when the street would be repaired and open to traffic again, the construction crews are experienced at doing these types of major repairs.
"It's too soon to tell but it's always amazing what they can do with their equipment."
Jul 27, 2011
Howard
Sinkhole Closes Interstate Off-Ramp - San Diego, California
Discovered July 27
A motorist reported to the California Highway Patrol at 1:24 a.m. that there was a hole in one of the off ramp lanes, the CHP website said.
The CHP closed both lanes and Cal Trans workers began repairs later in the morning. A worker at the scene said the dirt and pavement collapse may be related to recent installation of sewer lines nearby.
The hole was about three feet in diameter and four feet deep as of about 8 a.m., before workers began excavating the begin repairs, Cal Trans spokesman Steve Saville said. He said crews hope to fix the problem and open the ramp in time for the afternoon commute, perhaps about 3 p.m.
Jul 27, 2011
Howard
Massive Sinkhole in Burnsville, Minnesota
Discovered July 27
Just be ready to slam on the brakes... hard.
An apparent water main break has triggered a massive sinkhole across the southbound lanes of County 11 between McAndrews and Palomino Drive.
The sinkhole is more than 30 feet deep and at least 30 feet across. Crews worked through the night on the problem and hope to have the road open sometime on Thursday or Friday.
Motorists called 911 just after 6 p.m. Wednesday night reporting water shooting up from the broken pavement. Eventually the road caved in, revealing the giant sinkhole.
The cause was a breech in a 50-year-old cast iron pipe located approximately 20 feet deep below County Road 11. Due to the depth and location of the main, southbound County Road 11 was closed to all traffic as crews dug to reach it.
The location of the break is about one block off Interstate 35E. Approximately a dozen area businesses were hooked up to a temporary water supply after losing service.
Jul 28, 2011
Howard
Large Sinkhole & Gas Leak in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
KENSINGTON - July 29, 2011 (WPVI) -- Officials are on the scene of a sink hole in Kensington where there is a water line leak and a strong odor of gas.
Discovered July 29
Firefighters were called out to the 2000 block of Sepviva Street around 10:00 Friday morning for a large sinkhole in front of 2017 and 2019.
The hole ended up stretching 30 feet long and sinking twenty feet deep.
PGW and the Philadelphia Water Department responded to the scene.
Gas feeder lines to two homes ended up being severed by the sinkhole, explaining the odor of gas. The gas main was not damaged. PGW has since capped those lines.
According to Laura Copeland, of the Water Department, there are water leaks on two service lines that supply one home with water. Those two lines have also been capped.
11 residents, including some senior citizens, have been evacuated at this time. All but two of those evacuated should be allowed back into their homes by this evening. The remaining two are the ones whose gas meter lines were ruptured.
So far, it does not appear that the structural integrity of any nearby homes has been compromised.
So far, no word on how the sinkhole developed.
Jul 29, 2011
Howard
Sinkhole Almost Swallows Minivan - Cincinnati, Ohio
Discovered Aug 1
CINCINNATI -- A broken water main almost sank a minivan on Monday.
Fred Blankenship said the broken main caused a sinkhole to open on 70th Street, almost directly under the parked minivan.
Hot, Dry Conditions Blamed For Water Main Breaks
The van stayed out of the hole, but will likely have to be towed to allow crews to repair the water line.
The break is the second of the day in Hamilton County. Another break closed much of Ohio 32 near Beechmont Avenue.
Cincinnati Water Works said dry conditions were a factor in the breaks, with nearly 40 last month, compared to 16 in May.
Ohio 32 remains open despite the break.
Aug 2, 2011
Howard
Large Sinkhole Closes Street in Montreal, Canada
Discovered August 2
MONTREAL - A sewer that's more than a century old broke in east-central Montreal, creating a sinkhole about five metres deep, according to the Ville Marie borough.
Ville Marie borough spokesperson Jacques-Alain Lavallée said the sewer beneath the asphalt that collapsed was built in 1889.
The sewer broke on Ontario St. E. at Plessis St. on Tuesday evening, creating the sinkhole.
Repairs began Wednesday morning but Ontario St. E. remains open, Lavallée said.
However, Plessis St. will be closed between Ontario and Sherbrooke Sts. for about a week during the repairs.
Sidewalks will stay open.
Asked if pieces of asphalt could cave in elsewhere on Montreal’s streets, Lavallée said it's possible.
“The underground network is pretty old in Montreal. With the number of trucks, that has increased, and the number of cars and the vibrations - who knows?”
Aug 3, 2011
Howard
Large Sinkhole Opens in Downtown Ellsworth, Maine
Discovered Aug 2
ELLSWORTH, Maine — The Maine Department of Transportation and Ellsworth city officials said Thursday that they will have to analyze video of a failed drainage system that caused a large sinkhole in a major intersection before deciding how quickly the system must be repaired.
Early Tuesday, a sinkhole measuring 8 to 10 feet deep and 4 to 6 feet wide opened near the intersection of Routes 1 and 3, State Street and Water Street after heavy rains undermined the aging drainage system. The sinkhole was repaired quickly but officials warned at the time the fix was only temporary.
On Thursday, city crews descended under the street and used a camera to help assess the extent of the damage to the drainage system. Failures in both a metal culvert and a clay pipe led to the washout that eventually caused the sinkhole.
“What we are doing now is going over the information that we got today and determining what the best course of action is,” said Mark Latti, spokesman for the DOT. “Can we wait until the fall to make the repairs or do we need to act sooner?”
The ramifications of tearing up a busy downtown intersection in the middle of the summer tourist season quickly became obvious Thursday morning as traffic in all four directions began stacking up while the crews worked underground.
In addition to sending crews with a camera into the drainage system, the DOT also re-excavated the top layer of the temporary patch, which had settled under the weight of traffic, and filled it with new asphalt.
The entire intersection was closed at 9 a.m. and traffic had to be rerouted, although some lanes were quickly reopened.
Michelle Beal, Ellsworth city manager, said if major repairs have to be made soon, the city has told the DOT that they would hope the work could be done at night to avoid hurting downtown businesses, commuters and tourists.
As for Thursday’s work, Beal said city and state officials wanted to make sure they knew what they were dealing with.
“There was a sense of urgency that we just didn’t know how bad of a situation we had with that sinkhole,” Beal said.
Latti said a decision on how to proceed likely would come within a week or two.
Aug 5, 2011
Howard
Sinkhole in Saskatchewan, Canada
Discovered August 6
SWIFT CURRENT. City crews spent the weekend making repairs to a portion of 6th Ave. N.E. after a sinkhole developed in the middle of the street around the 300 block.
The street was blocked off around 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon when the sink hole suddenly appeared. A Swift Current Fire Department report notes that the hole was large and deep enough that a car could have easily fell into it. Fortunately, no vehicles were over the roadway when the cave in occurred.
A large natural gas line was exposed as a result of the sink hole, but there was no apparent damage to the line.
The cause of the sink hole is under investigation, and city crews excavated the area in order to conduct a full repair of the roadway.
Aug 8, 2011
Sevan Makaracı
Broomall, Philadelphia, August 10:
The large sinkhole discovered on Wednesday afternoon at 370 Reed Road in Broomall has been placed on township and police alert.
Aug 11, 2011
Howard
190-ft Sinkhole Discovered Beneath I-90 Connector Tunnel - Boston, MA
August 2011
A large sinkhole has opened up underneath the road surface inside one of the Big Dig tunnels. The hole is about 190 feet long and four feet deep.
It’s right beneath the I-90 connector tunnel near Logan Airport. Transportation officials say the hole does not pose any immediate danger to drivers because it’s nine feet beneath the surface.
The sinkhole was created by the settling of clay around the tunnel.
The Big Dig has a history of construction problems and cost overruns, with the latest issue to plague the Big Dig revealed by Mass-Dot officials.
Mass-Dot administrator Frank Depaolo says there is no emergency and should be no concern for the public.
In order to carve out the ground for the Big Dig tunnel, crews chemically froze the soil around South Station 11 years ago. The freezing process helped ensure the ground wouldn’t cave in, and engineers expected it to thaw and for the soil to settle. Just not as quickly as it is currently settling.
As a result, Mass-Dot says a hole has formed about eight feet beneath the I-90 connector. Although officials don’t know its depth or its length, they do say it could run the length of the tunnel itself, nearly 200 feet. What’s more, as a result, the ground is starting to buckle around South Station train tracks.
Mass-Dot defends the sinking problem, saying it poses no danger to the public. Officials say the tunnel was designed to act as a bridge. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino says he has every confidence the hole will be repaired.
"There's no safety issues here at all. Some people want to blow it up. There's no safety issues here at all," says Mayor Menino. "It's something we have to deal with and we will deal with and I know the Governor's office said that they're firmly committed to finding out what happened and how we can fix it."
Engineers will wait longer for soil to continue to settle and then fill the hole permanently with concrete in late 2013 or 2014. It is a big repair and consequently will cost $15 million. Mass-Dot officials say they have already spent $10 million to shore up ground around tracks at South Station.
Engineers Question Sinkhole Explanation
As state officials rushed to reassure drivers unnerved by yet another problem in the Big Dig tunnels, and US Representative Stephen F. Lynch called for a federal investigation, engineers said today they found it hard to believe that thawing soil alone could have caused a sinkhole to open beneath the 1-90 Connector.
Joseph Sopko has frozen ground for the construction of the Silver Line tunnel under Russia Wharf in Boston, a giant gold mine in Ontario, and sewage tunnels in Milwaukee. He said the earth around those projects has never settled by eight feet, as it has around the I-90 Connector.
“Those numbers are just way out of line,” said Sopko, an engineer who was not personally involved in the I-90 project, but works for Moretrench, the company that did the freezing there. “I did my doctoral dissertation on ground-freezing and I just can’t see, mathematically, how you can get that kind of compression.”
David K. Mueller, an engineer and vice president at Moretrench, who worked directly on the I-90 Connector project, said eight feet of settlement was more than he had seen in the 30 frozen-ground projects he has worked on.
“On most of the ground-freezing projects we’ve done, we’ve never seen any settlement,” he said.
Workers used chemicals to freeze the ground 11 years ago, allowing them to build the tunnel without the soil caving in. They completed the freezing process in 2002, and said they expected some settlement to occur as the ground thawed. But state officials said the ground has receded twice as much as they anticipated.
Though they say they are not sure what caused the problem, they disclosed on Wednesday that the thawing soil has left a sinkhole below the roadway, which has filled with water because the area is below the water table.
Engineers have not been able to see the sinkhole because of its remote location, 60 feet below ground, but have estimated that it could be 4 feet deep and up to 190 feet long. They say it poses no threat to drivers because tests show the tunnel could span the gap like a bridge over a river.
They plan to fill the space with concrete, once the area is completely thawed, sometime in late 2013 or early 2014.
The state has spent $15 million to date to monitor the situation, and has budgeted $10 million more for repairs. The money comes from a $485 million fund set up by the Big Dig’s contractors, to avoid liability for the fatal tunnel collapse in 2006, leaks, and other problems on the project.
“We’re confident the tunnels are safe, and they can withstand any of these stresses for as long as necessary, and well beyond their service life,” said Frank DePaola, the state highway administrator. “We’re not going to let the void stay there for that long just for durability and longevity. But it could. Very similar to a bridge spanning a river, it stays there for 50 to 75 years.”
Mel Levy, a retired tunnel engineer for the New York City Transit Authority, speculated that the tunnel may not be resting evenly on its base. That, he said, could cause the tunnel to bend and stress.
“The problems are more serious than they’re talking about,” he argued.
Lynch said he has asked the Federal Highway Administration to join the state in conducting a thorough inspection.
“Due to the high volume of commuter traffic using this roadway and the public safety issues involved, due diligence requires that we obtain a structural assessment to reassure the public that the situation is safe,” the congressman from South Boston said in a statement. “The safety of the public must be our top priority.”
Engineers have been freezing the earth for excavation projects for more than a century. But the I-90 Connector was one of the largest such projects ever. Officials chose to use ground freezing so they could build the tunnel under the train tracks without disrupting rail service.
“Ground-freezing is, without a doubt, the most expensive approach,” Sopko said. “But it’s for projects that can’t be done any other way.”
Andrew J. Whittle, a soil engineer at MIT and member of the state Department of Transportation board, said the state needs to find out why the ground has settled that much, so as to hold the proper contractor responsible.
“I can’t see how thawing would produce this movement alone,” he said. “There must be something else at play, and it probably is worth investigating.”
Whittle offered one theory. He noted that workers have had to place 8 feet of rock under the train tracks into South Station, to keep the tracks level as the ground there has settled. He said those rocks could be pressing the soil down.
“The fact that there are 8 feet of stone one the surface is the piece that people have missed,“ he said. “Eight feet of stone is a lot of stone and, for sure, that could drive this. “
DePaola, however, dismissed the idea that those stones weigh enough to depress the ground.
Thomas C. Sheahan, a civil engineer at Northeastern, said the soil itself could be a factor, because it is mostly Boston Blue Clay.
“From a soil point of view, it loses some of its strength,” when it is dug up during construction, he said. “This phenomenon of the sensitivity of the clay could be leading to additional settlement than would normally be predicted.”
Aug 12, 2011
Sevan Makaracı
Xiang'an District, Xiamen, China. August 11:
A big sinkhole appeared without warning at around 12 am Wednesday on a road in Xiang’an District, Xiamen, but no one was injured, reports Strait News. The sinkhole on Zengwu Road near Meidi Yadeng Neighborhood is at least 2 metres deep and 1 metre in diameter, fortunately, no one was walking on the section when the accident happened, according to Xiang’an officials. Crews have shut down the road and worked through the night to clean the rubble in the hole. An underground pipe, which was crushed by heavy-duty vehicles several years ago and failed to be repaired, was considered to have caused the road to cave-in. Ms Huang, who lives around the site, hoped an overall check for groundsill in the area will be launched to prevent things like this from happening again.
Aug 12, 2011
Starr DiGiacomo
Casalnuovo, Italy. August 11th, 2011.
A special thanks to our european contributor, Waldërn Von Feld.
Garbage truck + sinkhole = deadly sinkhole.
A deadly accident took place Tuesday night in Casalnuovo, near Naples. A hole with a depth of ten meters and a width of twenty meters opened in the asphalt of Via Romano Strettola, literally swallowing a garbage truck into the sinkhole that occurred. The driver reportedly seeing the abyss, applied the brakes, but did not manage to stop in time. A water leak was the cause of the giant sinkhole.
The driver died instantly. The two workers who are usually in the back of the truck were injured in the accident, tells an eye-witness to the Italian newspaper”La Repubblica”.
But the sinkhole has had other consequences. A building on the street in question, with 25 families residing in it had to be evacuated.
The recovery of the body from the affected road was also not without risks. A firefighter fell into the pit and had to be rescued. Taken to hospital, the worker’s injuries are not considered life threatening, neither are the injuries of the two other sanitation workers who were wounded.
http://thesinkhole.org/
Aug 12, 2011
Starr DiGiacomo
Howard. This is from an italian newspaper but I can't figure out how to translate it to English. It is specifically about all the sinkholes happening in Naples, Italy
Tre voragini si aprono nel centro di Napoli
Autore: Redazione Campanialive.it
23/09/2009 (letto 1642 volte)
Stamane 3 voragini si sono aperte nel centro di Napoli.
Tre voragini si sono aperte a Napoli centro nella zona piazzetta San Carlo alle Mortelle: Le forze dell'ordine hanno proceduto allo sgombero di circa 40 famiglie. L'area è stata chiusa al traffico per motivi precauzionali. Secondo i Vigili del fuoco, una prima voragine si e' creata nella chiesa San Carlo alle Mortelle dove il pavimento ha ceduto precipitando nella cavità sotterranea. Successivamente si è formata una spaccatura nella strada adiacente e un'altra al piano terra di una casa. La voragine, dai rilievi effettuati, pare sia di circa 20 mt. di diametro.
All'origine di questo episodio il dissesto del sottosuolo partenopeo e le piogge dei giorni scorsi che anche se non eccezionali potrebbero aver causato o innescato il fenomeno.
Torna quindi alla ribalta delle cronache il problema del sottosuolo napoletano che pieno di cavità e dissesti preoccupa non poco la cittadinanza alle prese dopo ogni pioggia intensa con gli atavici problemi derivanti dalla incuria e dallo scarso interesse delle istituzioni al problema.
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Aug 12, 2011
Howard
Sinkhole Closes Road in Montoursville (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Discovered August 11th
A sinkhole has a section of Broad Street in Montoursville closed, and it may be that way for a few days.
According to PennDOT, the sinkhole that opened just west of Loyalsock Avenue Thursday afternoon was caused by a water main break.
Now both directions of Broad Street are closed so repairs can be made.
Eastbound and westbound Broad Street traffic near Loyalsock Avenue will be detoured until further notice. Traffic that would normally enter Montoursville on Broad Street will use the Route 87 exit off I-180.
According to PennDOT, traffic signals at Broad Street and Loyalsock Avenue will be placed in the flashing mode while repairs are underway.
It may be several days before the work is completed.
Homes and businesses along the closed section of Broad Street can be accessed by the alleys off Loyalsock Avenue north and south of Broad Street.
Aug 12, 2011
Howard
Water and Gas Main Break Opens Gaping Sinkhole in Harlem - Manhattan, New York
Discovered August 12th
HARLEM — A water and gas main break on St. Nicholas Avenue sent a geyser shooting up into the air and opened up a gaping hole in the street Friday afternoon, witnesses and authorities said.
The massive crater appeared in front of a bus stop on St. Nicholas Avenue, near 152nd Street, at around 12:30 p.m. while fire crews were investigating the smell of gas in the area, according to FDNY Battalion Chief Michael Brown.
Woody Valez, 41, a cook who lives on the block, was walking to the store when he smelled gas and heard an explosion.
"It was a loud boom," he said. "No one knew what happened until we saw the water shooting in the air. It was a lot of water."
Fire officials cordoned off the block, but no buildings were evacuated because there was no sign of elevated gas levels. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Officials from the city's Department of Environmental Protection said that a 12-inch water main that was installed in 1956 had ruptured, leaving 100 to 150 families without water on St. Nicholas Avenue between 150th and 153rd streets.
Service was expected to be restored Friday evening.
Con Ed spokesman Allan Drury said that the utility had received several reports from customers who said that they had no gas. They believe that water may have gotten into the gas main.
Workers from both agencies were trying to isolate the source of the leak. When the gas line is capped, they can start fixing the water main, officials said.
Residents said that the cavernous hole has been plaguing the block for years.
"There has always been a sinkhole there. Its always been caving in," said filmmaker Greg Whitmore, 35.
In fact, the hole had grown so large in recent months that residents put a garbage can in it to warn motorists.
He said workers would come by from time to time to fix the hole, but the problem had been getting worse since May.
On St. Nicholas Avenue and 151st Street, Celeste Hollman sat across the street from her building with the six people that live in her apartment.
"I told my children to pack two outfits because I'm not taking any chances," she said while holding a hastily-packed plastic bag full of clothes between her legs.
"I'm not going back until I know they have fixed that pipe. I'll sit here all night if I have to. My daughter is nervous and scared."
Other residents stocked up on supplies. Reynaldo Morel bought four gallons of water from a nearby bodega. "The water is dirty," he said.
Express trains on the A line, which runs underneath St. Nicholas Avenue, were being rerouted to the local line between 145th Street and 168th Street, according to the MTA's website.
The agency said that delays can be expected on the A and C lines.
Because of the break, B train service was suspended along the entire length of the line, from Bedford Park in The Bronx to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn.
There was also no D train service between 145th and 167th streets.
Aug 13, 2011
Howard
Downtown Vancouver Sinkhole a Mystery - Vancouver BC, Canada
Discovered August 12th
The City of Vancouver says it has no explanation for a large hole which developed early Friday at the busy intersection of Seymour and Robson Streets.
“We don’t know what caused it,” said city spokeswoman Wendy Stewart. “The ground was dry. There was no water and no suggestion it was from a broken pipe.”
She said dry, summer weather is not the type of conditions in which sinkholes usually form.
“Sometimes dirt will erode and a pothole will be created,” she said. “Sinkholes are more common when winter turns to spring and water comes down from the hills.”
A gap in the pavement appeared overnight and grew to the size of a trench about one metre wide, four metres long and up to a metre deep.
“There was no danger to the public,” said Stewart.
The crews were putting the finishing touches on repairs Friday afternoon and reopening the lanes to traffic.
Stewart said a micro-camera will be used next week to investigate where all the dirt went.
Aug 13, 2011
Howard
Sinkhole Continues to Grow Without Explanation - Utica, New York
Discovered July 2011
UTICA — Utica resident Ralph Stevens wrote to “Public Eye” regarding a large sinkhole on Elm Street near his home.
“I keep watching this thing grow bigger and bigger,” Stevens said.
The details
The hole, near 1114 Elm St., was between 1- and 1½-feet deep and several inches wide. Trash collected in it and it looked as though the asphalt was crumbling.
Stevens said he noticed the hole about five weeks ago.
The future
Workers from Utica’s Engineering Department investigated the sinkhole after they were alerted to the situation by “Public Eye,” said Utica Senior Engineer Deborah Day.
The hole was filled about two weeks ago, she said. The sewer line was checked last week to see if the problem could be identified.
“It appears it is not a problem with the city sanitary sewer main,” Day said.
The problem may stem from an old pavement cut from utility repairs, which has since settled, Day said.
The cause of the sinkhole still is unknown, but Day assured the Engineering Department will continue to keep an eye on it to ensure it does not re-open.
Aug 13, 2011
Howard
Huge Sinkhole Closes East Burdick Expressway - Minot, North Dakota
Discovered August 12
This huge sinkhole near the entrance to Roosevelt Park Zoo opened early Friday afternoon and nearly swallowed a large trailer carrying flood debris. The hole is 15 to 20 feet long, 8 to 10 feet wide and at least 8 feet deep. Minot Public Works Director Alan Walter said the sinkhole was caused by a sewer collapse. Sinkholes have been common throughout the city as high groundwater has caused a large amount of subsurface erosion. East Burdick Expressway will be closed from the west end of the Burdick viaduct to Eighth Avenue Southeast until further notice. Detours will be from Fifth Street Southeast to Valley Street and from Valley Street to Eighth Avenue Southeast.
Aug 13, 2011
Howard
Sinkhole Swallows Car in Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Discovered August 14
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UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (WUSA) -- A large water main break in Upper Marlboro has created a sinkhole large enough to swallow a car.
Kira Calm Lewis, spokeswoman for WSSC says a 30-inch main broke in the 6900 block of South Osbourne Road around 10:45 Sunday night. Lewis says the rushing water weakened the road, where a sinkhole developed. A woman traveling on South Osbourne Road drove into the sinkhole but Lewis says she was not injured. A tow truck was called in to remove the car.
Right now WSSC crews are on the scene working to shut down water to the area so they can begin their repair work. At this point there is no estimate on how long the work may take.
All lanes of South Osbourne Road are closed between Carroll Way and Brentwood Drive
According to Lewis customers in the area may be experiencing outages or low water pressure.
Aug 15, 2011
Howard
Massive Sinkhole in Staten Island, New York
Discovered August 15
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A large sinkhole has shut down traffic on Narrows Road North at Richmond Road following yesterday's massive rainfall.
A sewer line in a National Grid excavation hole broke, according to a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection. Workers at the scene said it appeared that rain run-off from the Staten Island Expressway put enough stress on the area to cause the break.
Traffic in the area of the Concord intersection -- already plagued by major backups because of the Staten Island Expressway ramp construction project -- will likely be much worse than normal today during until crews can make emergency repairs.
The city is in the process of making repairs and traffic is being rerouted. There is no timetable yet for when the road will reopen.
Narrow Road North is shut down between Targee Street and Richmond Road while two lanes of Richmond Road are closed at Narrows Road North as repairs are made.
Aug 15, 2011
astrogal50
“Heat pops pipes nationwide” headlines mainstream media articles plastered all over the internet today, August 15, 2011. Wrong! These are caused by stretching related to the nearby presence of Planet X.
When underground pipes and water mains burst in the winter, the Establishment blames the cold or aging infrastructure. When pipes and water mains burst in the summer, now the common man is supposed to believe heat and high water useage are the causes. But pipe and water main breaks were not occurring in massive numbers before Planet X arrived in the inner solar system and such breaks were infrequent and readily explained before 2003.
There is no truth to these recent Establishment Lies that attempt to explain how pipes and water mains (now) burst in the summer too!
From ZetaTalk Newsletter No. 150:
Water Main Breaks
Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, water main breaks are one of the first indicators of earth movement. Buried in the ground, and often brittle from decades of use, they are put under stress when the ground shifts. Other signs of ground movement featured in this newsletter recently are collapsing bridges, unstable dams, sinking or rising land, buildings falling down, imploding buildings and booms. A rash of water main breaks within the past month, with multiple breaks in a single location, show that something other than old pipes and coincidence is afoot. Many of these breaks are accompanied by other signs of ground movement, such as booms or the smell of methane gas. In San Diego several water main breaks happened in close proximity to each other, one after the other. Days later a large main broke in LA, trapping a fire engine in the hole, while another main broke in Studio City. Note that California is showing other signs of stress, in that San Francisco had an odd unexplained methane gas odor just weeks before the San Diego water main breaks. http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue150.htm
ZetaTalk: Nancy will tell you that she has received emails from many southern Texas residents as to how unstable the ground has become. Bridges have been separating, roadways opening up, and the ground sinking. All the land between New England and Mexico is being pulled at a diagonal, and it is not just the fault lines that are feeling stress. All will participate when the New Madrid Fault makes a serious adjustment. http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta426.htm
Aug 15, 2011
Howard
Sinkhole Swallows Car in Sioux City, Iowa
Discovered August 13
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SIOUX CITY, IA - A sinkhole swallows a car on Sioux City's east side.
A 12-inch underground water main broke in the 1900 block of South Alice in Morningside Saturday night. City crews were able to stop the leak two hours later, but not before the water eroded the soil underneath the street. When a car drove over that area a little later, the street collapsed, taking the car with it.
"Typically we don't have street failure to this extent, but then again, we don't have a lot of 12-inch water main breaks either, and just because of the size of the water main, that's why we had such significant street failure," says Brian Fahrendholz, Sioux City Field Services Manager.
Crews are still investigating the incident, but water service to the area has been restored.
Aug 16, 2011
Howard
Massive Sinkhole in Mandan (Bismark, North Dakota)
Discovered early August 2011
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The city of Mandan says crews are working as fast as they can to repair a sinkhole on the strip.
A sewer pipe collapsed along the 3300 block of Memorial Highway at the beginning of August and high levels of ground water and shifting earth have caused a large sink hole around it. The city is unsure whether the pipe collapsed on its own or if it was due to the high water table.
Workers are still pumping water from the site but hope to have the project complete by the end of the week.
Aug 16, 2011
Howard
Large Sinkhole Opens in Newaygo, Michigan
Discovered August 16
Eleven feet long, six feet wide and seven to eight feet deep
Michigan Department of Transportation crews are working to repair a sinkhole that opened near the corner of M-37 and Water Street in Newaygo this afternoon.
MDOT spokesman John Richard said crews expect to have at least one lane open in each direction by 10 p.m. Tuesday. The southbound M-37 lanes are open while work continues, and the northbound traffic is following a two-block-long detour, he said.
Richard said the sinkhole is about 11 feet long, six feet wide and seven to eight feet deep. No one was injured when it opened this afternoon, he said.
"Local business owners saw it start to open" and called the Newaygo County Road Commission, which called MDOT, he said.
Heavy rains Saturday had damaged a storm sewer pipe under the road, causing the ground underneath to erode and collapse, Richard said.
Newaygo City Manager Jon Schneider said he hadn't seen any problems with the detour Tuesday afternoon.
"Fortunately there's some side streets close by to get around it," he said. "It looks like the traffic is flowing just fine."
Aug 17, 2011
Howard
Large Sinkhole Opens in New York City
Discovered August 12
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NEW YORK (CBS 2) — People are stopping, staring and taking pictures of a massive sinkhole that opened in the middle of 82nd Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West, but frustrated residents are asking what city officials intend to do to prevent future collapses.
“It’s a recurring thing that happens every year,” resident Kirk Williamson told CBS 2′s Elise Finch.
Williamson’s window faces the hole that he says he first noticed on Friday. Since then, it has extended to 10 feet in circumference and 20 feet deep.
Just a few yards away is what’s left of smaller sinkhole that formed last year and the hole left from a water main break just two weeks ago.
“There’s a lot of work going on in here and it’s taxpayer-paid for. If they don’t really find a solution it will keep happening,” Williamson said.
“There’s been no one here investigating it. So that’s a little bit troubling. This is a very family-oriented block,” said resident Rochelle Hestnas.
Ed Coleman, with the City’s Department of Environmental Protection, said his office was just recently notified of the latest sinkhole but an investigation is underway. Crews are using ultrasound scanners and underground cameras, among other tools, to get to the bottom of the problem.
“So far we have not found any leaks on the water mains. Additionally we inspect the sewers, so we open all the sewer manhole covers, look down to see if they’re functioning properly and they were. Any other problems I’m sure we’ll detect them now and correct them,” he said.
An independent contractor has also been called in to do another investigation. Once the problem is finally identified, crews will remove the broken concrete and asphalt from the sinkhole and fill it in.
Both investigations into what caused the sinkhole could be wrapped up as early as Thursday.
Aug 18, 2011
Howard
Sinkhole Swallows SUV in Detroit, Michigan
Discovered August 18
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DETROIT (WXYZ) - Detroit police are on the scene of a large sinkhole that has swallowed an SUV on Detroit's east side.
The sinkhole is on Beaubien, between Chandler and Smith. The SUV is nose into the sinkhole, with water up over the windshield and onto the front doors.
It's not clear what caused the sinkhole to open up. Video from the scene shows water covering the road. Neighbors say that a watermain had been repaired in the last year, but recently a dip had appeared in the road.
A woman and her daughter and granddaughter were able to get out of the car. They were taken from the scene by EMS, but appeared to be all right.
Another Report
Some residents in Detroit are still without water as crews work to repair a water main break.
The break happened Thursday and it's not clear when water will be restored.
The rupture caused a sinkhole that nearly swallowed an SUV with two women and a toddler trapped inside.
"She was hysterical, she was just shocked when she seen the water come up in the car. Because at first it was just the bumper then it started sliding deeper down," said rescuer Dawn Ramsey.
Everyone was able to get out of the car. Luckily, none of the injuries were serious.
Aug 19, 2011
Howard
SUV Swallowed by Sinkhole - Chicago, Illinois
Discovered August 19
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A sinkhole on Chicago's northwest side measured 14 feet by 14 feet in size and 12 feet deep. It was so big that a car fell into it and flipped upside down Saturday morning, August 20, 2011. A spokesperson with the city water department in Chicago says that a water main broke, undermining the street and causing it to collapse. Source
A man driving to work this morning on Chicago's Northwest Side got an unpleasant surprise when his SUV tumbled into a sinkhole.
The incident happened at the intersection of Foster and Elston avenues at about 5:30 a.m., said police and a spokesman from the Chicago Department of Water Management.
"I saw him actually climb out of the hole on a ladder," said Joe Springer, whose bar Rabbit's sits at the corner. "The cops told me he was okay."
Tom LaPorte, the water management spokesman, said the 10-to-12-foot hole was believed to have developed after a water main broke under the street and the water washed away the layers of dirt supporting the road.
Indeed, said Springer, neighbors in the area had been complaining for about two weeks of low water pressure.
The nephew, Sarith Khim, said his 66-year-old uncle, named Bok Khim, is a machinist and was driving to work at a factory about mile north on Elston. His uncle told him his Acura MDX SUV nearly flipped over as it fell into the hole. Luckily, the nephew said, his uncle had his seatbelt fastened.
A construction worker passing by lowered a ladder into the hole for the driver to climb out. Bok Khim was taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital with neck pain and bruises, his nephew said.
By about 10 a.m., the car had been removed from the hole with a crane. LaPorte said the damaged pipe would take at least a day to fix.
Sinkhole Survivor Fought to Stay Alive
Aug 20, 2011
Howard
Sinkhole and Gas Leak in Youngstown, Ohio
Discovered August 21
A large sinkhole caused a natural gas leak on Youngstown's south side.
Firefighters and gas company officials were called to the end of Shady Run Road for the odor of natural gas in the area around noon on Sunday.
When crews first arrived on scene, they found a giant sinkhole on the side of the road. The fire captain said when the sinkhole opened up, it pulled the gas tap away from the house.
The line was supposed to shut off, but it didn't.
"We've got a little bit of a hazard because people aren't home in these two houses and the gas is in the sewer lines, so we're shutting off the gas to the houses and we're pulling the electric meters as a precaution, until Dominion can get out here and dig this hole open and get the gas shut off," said Captain Ron Russo with the Youngstown Fire department.
The Youngstown Street Department was called in to stabilize the sinkhole and the roadway.
The dead end of Shady Run is closed to traffic while Dominion and Ohio Edison crews work to repair the line, and restore gas to the homes in the area.
Aug 22, 2011
Howard
Large Sinkhole Closes Street in Downtown Hagerstown, Maryland
Discovered August 22
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West Baltimore Street is closed between Hood Street and Summit Avenue while workers from the City of Hagerstown's Water Department are repairing a 12-inch water main that broke at that location, said Michael Spiker, director of utilities for the City of Hagerstown Utilities Department.
The water main broke at about 3 a.m., Spiker said.
The running water from the water main created a sinkhole in the street, according to Spiker.
The hole measured 12 feet long by 6 feet wide and 4 feet deep.
Workers shut down the water main when they arrived on the scene.
Repairing the water main will require more excavation in the street, according to Spiker.
The street is expected to be closed until noon today, Spiker said.
Aug 22, 2011