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The sinkhole was caused by the collapse of a storm water utility outfall pipe, part of the village's primary storm water conveyance, 70 feet below the surface of Buckley and Big Bay Parks.
Repair won't be a quick fix or an easy endeavor Around 70 feet below the park grounds where the sinkhole occurred is the stormwater outfall pipe that drains between 15% and 20% of the village's ...
Canton City Council approved paying the contractors $278,919 to fix the U.S. Route 30 sinkhole that ... sinkhole repair to cost Canton $280,000 ... area sanitary sewer replacement project. The ...
Widespread washouts can occur in mountainous areas after heavy rains, even in normally dry ravines. A severe washout can become a landslide, or cause a dam break in an earthen dam. Like other forms of erosion, most washouts can be prevented by vegetation whose roots hold the soil and/or slow the flow of surface and underground water.
Pipe replacement by pipe bursting. Pipe bursting is a trenchless method of replacing buried pipelines (such as sewer, water, or natural gas pipes) without the need for a traditional construction trench. "Launching and receiving pits" replace the trench needed by conventional pipe-laying.
Sinkholes can vary in size from 1 to 600 m (3 to 2,000 ft) both in diameter and depth, and vary in form from soil-lined bowls to bedrock-edged chasms. Sinkholes may form gradually or suddenly, and are found worldwide. [3]
Groundwater can be considered one of the last free resources, as anyone who can afford to drill can usually draw up merely according to their ability to pump (depending on local regulations). However, as seen in the figure, pumping-induced draw down causes a depression of the groundwater surface around the production well.
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