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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.
Under the right conditions (if the water supply loses pressure and the sink is higher than the point at which the water supply enters the house, for instance), the dirty water in the sink could be siphoned backwards into the water pipes through the hose and faucet. The dirty water could then be dispersed throughout the drinking water system.
A garbage truck that got stuck in a sinkhole with exposed utility lines led to a large portion of downtown Omaha losing power for several hours Thursday while workers removed the vehicle.
The Red Lake sinkhole in Croatia. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet.
A sinkhole and water main break in a parking lot Sunday has created an unsafe situation for nearly 20 townhomes in Patton Township. On Sunday evening, a sinkhole opened up in the parking lot for ...
Piping is a related phenomenon and is defined as the progressive development of internal erosion by seepage, appearing downstream as a hole discharging water. [4] Piping is induced by regressive erosion of particles from downstream and along the upstream line towards an outside environment until a continuous pipe is formed. [5] [6]
Pumps being used to dewater a spillway at Baldhill Dam. Dewatering / d iː ˈ w ɔː t ər ɪ ŋ / is the removal of water from a location. This may be done by wet classification, centrifugation, filtration, or similar solid-liquid separation processes, such as removal of residual liquid from a filter cake by a filter press as part of various industrial processes.
Utility crews extracted a car from a 7-foot-deep sinkhole after a water main break submerged the vehicle and flooded multiple houses in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, May 3.The SLC Department of ...