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Old 08-16-2020, 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Lee Gilpin View Post
Same problem in Liberty Park a few years ago. I experienced sheared off sewer pipe; it was repaired, and a few weeks later more fill dirt had to be added. This second work proved to me that excavations here are not sufficiently tamped. Settlement can shear off plastic pipes.
More on settlement: You will notice asphalt having been patched near many storm water drains along many of our roads. I believe that also due to insufficient tamping of the backfill around the initial construction.
IMO majority of sinkholes are under storm drains water mains, or transfer pipes. IMO The leak and saturation the ground down to cavity and collapse, IMO that man made collapse and NOT natural nature sinkhole as seen from google earth all Florida and most parts of country and world.