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Originally Posted by Escape Artist
To my knowledge, there’s only been one or two occurrences of sink holes in The Villages. How can you tell which areas are prone to it and is all the overdevelopment in The Villages a cause for concern on this issue? (Don’t mean to hijack this thread but since the subject was already mentioned a couple of times…)
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There's a ground collapse three houses away from mine right now, in the street. A month ago there was a different one that'd been there for three months before it was finally filled in and re-sodded, and that was around the corner, also on my street. Another happened also on the "historic side" that half-swallowed someone's car while they were driving up the road, and it collapsed under their wheels.
A sinkhole is a type of ground collapse. Sinkholes are natural occurrences that are common throughout Central Florida, also known as Sinkhole Alley.
Other kinds of ground collapses can be caused by defective retention pond lining, inferior retention pond lining, inferior engineering standards for road building, poor or insufficient road maintenance, pipe leaks and bursts under the ground, and a handful of other things that would not have happened if people didn't build on sand and limestone.
Most of the Villages ground collapses aren't sinkholes, but we do get lots of them. Most of them don't make the news because they're as unremarkable as pot-holes are in New York City.