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Giant Assumption Parish sinkhole in Louisiana swallows another large chunk of land


WAFB
Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:57 UTC
    • The massive sinkhole plaguing south Louisiana continues to grow, as it has "eaten" another large section of land.

    The Assumption Parish Police Jury reported the latest slough in on its blog Tuesday evening.

    Officials stated a 20 feet by 80 feet chunk located on the east side of the sinkhole collapsed.

    It had been several weeks since the giant sinkhole had claimed more land.

    About 500 square feet of earth was lost on Oct. 9.
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    Sharp tremor recorded by USGS monitors at the site of the giant Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish

    Amber Stegall
    WAFB.com
    Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:33 UTC
    A sharp tremor was recorded by USGS monitors just after 9 p.m. Wednesday at the site of the giant Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish. The giant sinkhole appeared in August near the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou areas.The Assumption Parish Police Jury says the tremor was large enough that the body wave phases could easily be identified. A body wave travels through the interior of the earth.
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    © Assumption Office of Emergency Preparedness
    The preliminary location of the tremor was just SE of Oxy #3 cavern at a depth of 500m. There is no additional information specific to this seismic activity at this time. The sinkhole is now about four acres in size. Residents were forced from their homes on August third, two months after the bayous started bubbling. They are still evacuated from their homes.

    Comment: Mysterious Louisiana Sinkhole Raises Concerns of Explosions and Radiation
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    Methane explosion fears rise in sinkhole-ravaged Louisiana town

    Stuart Smith
    The Stuart Smith Blog
    Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
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    The people of Bayou Corne have been through a lot. It started this summer when residents of the small bayou community about 70 miles west of New Orleans began feeling tremors and reporting foul odors. Then in August, a large sinkhole - near the site of a cavern that has long been mined by the Texas Brine Co. - threatened the town and forced evacuations. And the news keeps getting worse: Now officials are warning the residents of a powerful buildup of methane gas under Bayou Corne that could cause a massive explosion:
    An as-yet undetermined amount of natural gas is trapped in the aquifer underneath the Bayou Corne community, state and parish officials have said.

    The area has been rattled by earth tremors, has waterways with gas bubbling to the surface, and is in the vicinity of a 4-acre sinkhole south of La. 70 that has grown larger since its emergence Aug. 3. Bayou Corne's 150 households have been evacuated since the sinkhole appeared just off the edge of the Napoleonville Dome, a 1-mile-by-3-mile underground salt deposit.
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    More land at sinkhole falls in

    David J. Mitchell
    The Advocate
    Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:15 UTC
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    A 1,500-square-foot section of earth caved in from the edge of a slurry-filled sinkhole near Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish on Tuesday night, pulling down with it several trees and part of an access road, officials said Wednesday.

    The road was built as a place for parking excavators that will be used in the pending cleanup of the sinkhole, which emerged Aug. 3 in swamps between the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou areas on property owned by Texas Brine Co., parish officials said in a blog post.

    The sinkhole - filled with a liquid mixture of brine, mud, vegetative matter and other substances - has forced the evacuation of residents in 150 households in the two communities.

    Comment: What are the officials in Louisiana hiding? This recent video gives an in depth discussion of the sinkhole's recent expansion, earthquakes increasing in the area, and the bubbling, 'radioactive' water of this potentially massive disaster. The Emergency Update video below is from The Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle.



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    Over two months later, Brooklyn sinkhole grows to 70 foot deep cavity, outgassing horrible smell that makes residents sick


    CBS New York
    Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:12 UTC
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    © CBS 2Since June 28, residents have dealt with a deteriorating situation on 92nd Street in Bay Ridge. The smell now coming out of the 70-foot deep sinkhole is so bad that residents are becoming ill.
    Since June 28 The Situation Has Deteriorated On 92nd Street; Residents Fume; Repair work not expected to finish until end of October

    It's gone from bad to worse. A massive sinkhole has turned from traffic nightmare to sickening situation in Brooklyn. A sewer main broke more than two months ago in Bay Ridge, creating a huge hole in the street.

    And as CBS 2's Dave Carlin reported Friday night, the stench has now become a major problem.

    Misery is how 92nd Street residents describe the slow, tedious work on the enormous sinkhole, which first formed back on June 28 and is still not close to being repaired.

    Workers have been going down more than 70 feet to fix a busted 110-year-old sewer pipe. The hole has unleashed a non-stop sickening smell.
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    Sinkhole in parking lot swallows car in North Carolina


    ABC News
    Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC

    A Duke University law student driving by a fast food restaurant near campus was slowed to a halt Tuesday when his car fell into a sinkhole.

    Rajiv Thairani, 27, from San Francisco, was driving his girlfriend's 2001 Honda Prelude in an empty lot next to a Bojangles restaurant in Durham, N.C., around 2 p.m. when he struck the sinkhole.

    "I was going to use the lot to turn around so I just turned into it and my car is relatively low to the ground and the hole wasn't visible from the street," Thairani told ABCNews.com. "My initial reaction was that the ground underneath me had given way, like it had collapsed."

    Thairani fell into an eight-foot deep sinkhole. The hole had appeared in the ground the day before but had not been properly marked off, according to Thairani.
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    Sinkhole could close Ottawa highway for days


    CBC.ca
    Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:55 UTC
    Highway 174 eastbound could be closed for days as sinkhole grows to size of 'Olympic pool'

    An Ottawa man escaped a highway sinkhole, which has grown to the size of an "Olympic-sized pool", after his car was swallowed during afternoon rush hour yesterday. Juan Pedro Unger told CBC News he was driving home eastbound on Highway 174 in the east Ottawa community of Orleans when he saw a black patch ahead in his lane near the Jeanne d'Arc Boulevard exit.
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    © Ottawa Fire ServicesThis sinkhole swallowed Juan Pedro Unger's four-door sedan as he drove home during rush hour Tuesday in east Ottawa.
    At first, Unger said, he thought it was a tarp. But when he discovered it was a large hole, it was too late to stop. "I couldn't make a radical manoeuvre, it could have caused an accident," he said. "I just tried to come to a stop, but I couldn't and it just sunk in."
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    Sinkhole threatens to swallow mobile home in Polk County, Florida

    Cheryl Glassford
    cfnews13.com
    Sun, 02 Sep 2012 07:18 UTC
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    A Polk County family may be forced out of their home after a sinkhole opened up and is threatening to swallow their home.
    A Polk County family may be forced out of their home after a sinkhole opened up and began threatening to swallow the structure.

    The 22-foot wide, 17-foot deep sinkhole has made the mobile home unsafe to live in and already swallowed part of their sidewalk.

    The couple who lives there is waiting to find out if filling the hole will save the home.

    If filling the hole doesn't help, the homeowners will have to move out for good. They said the home is too old and would likely fall apart if they moved it.

    The Red Cross was paying for the couple to stay in a hotel, but their assistance ran out Saturday and they have nowhere to go.
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    Sinkhole opens up in Flint, Michigan

    Roberto Acosta
    mlive.com
    Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:25 UTC
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    © Roberto Acosta | MLive.comA City of Burton employee work on patching a sinkhole on Center Road near Bristol Road Tuesday afternoon.
    Burton, MI -- City workers were busy Wednesday afternoon working on a sinkhole that opened up on Center Road near Bristol Road that has redirected traffic in the area.

    The two-lane section of road heading south on Center Road, right in front of Green Thumb Grow Shop at 3496 S. Center Road, where the hole four feet in diameter opened up will likely be closed until Tuesday, said DPW employee Chris Howser.

    A Genesys PHO building was opened on Center Road in mid-2010, but amidst the plans was a connection to a county-operated, 30-inch water main across the street.
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    Sinkhole forces evacuation of three homes in New Port Richey, Florida

    Erik Waxler
    ABC Action News
    Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:21 UTC

    A sinkhole in Pasco County forces out some homeowners and leaves others worried there could be more damage.
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