ronott1
A chicken will always remember the egg
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12 Years
13 Years
We had a sink hole here under a road that was caused by a broken sewer pipe. The water coming in washed the roadway down the pipe. Eventually it removed 30 feet deep and 40feet wide of dirt and soil! The road was closed for about a month while it was fixedEver since I've lived here (>20 years) there has been a little dip in a bit of the road nearby, such the car will bounce a bit coming out of it. Periodically the council have come along and we have traffic control for weeks/months, some work is done, they pack up, and there's still a dip but it's not as deep. I had always assumed it was water washing away the ground under the road, as the road runs along a contour of a sloping hill and whenever it rains hard, water pours off the hill and spills across the road in numerous places. The last repairs were in the spring, but it was less than a month before the dip returned big time and traffic control was back to limit vehicles to one side of the road only. Yesterday concrete barriers were installed (because locals had removed ordinary road closed signs apparently!) and the whole road's shut, because it turns out it's a sinkhole under there and it's now the complete width of the road! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54368241
It needs a long detour to avoid this little bit of road; I do hope they fix it quickly. It will be wrecking school bus routes and timetables, amongst other things. But as someone who drives this road regularly, I'm also glad they haven't waited until there literally was a hole in the road down which some unsuspecting motorist could disappear