L Roebuck
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Post by L Roebuck on May 29, 2007 12:16:05 GMT -5
Sinkholes worsen with developmentScarcity of land leads to building in trouble spots As Middle Tennessee's population grows, communities have increasingly found they had better be wary of the land. With much of the Midstate's best land already built on, developers increasingly are turning to areas known to have sinkholes, a result of erosion that weakens the limestone base created billions of years ago when shallow seas receded. Costly damage can result, and lives can be at risk. Walls of a building can crack, or land can open into underground chasms that will swallow a home or a chunk of highway. There are remedies, such as keeping construction at a distance from sinkholes and not cutting trees and other plants around the dips in the earth. Some developers try to fill the holes with rocks. Often no one sees any problem coming. That was the case for Troy and Yvonne Givens of Portland, who awoke one November morning in 2005 to find their home twisted and groaning as a section fell in bursts into a hole that had opened in the earth. Full Story: TennesseanGraphic: Sinkholes in the MidstateGraphic: How Sinkholes Form
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Brian Roebuck
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Post by Brian Roebuck on May 30, 2007 6:01:25 GMT -5
Gee, Did anyone ever consider maybe there are better places to populate? Duh? This is the same issue I have with buffoons building on the beach. Sooner or later a hurricane will wipe you out. It is almost certain. So why build there or on a sinkhole area in the first place. There are better places to build!
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