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Old 01-02-2025, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by biker1 View Post
There is a good probability of a sewer line issue that has caused a cavern below the road surface to open up. I drove by it yesterday before they closed the road down.
A cavern below a leaking sewer line may have dissolved some of the underground limestone and caused the surrounding soil to fall into the hole created by the dissolving limestone. Another name for that is a sinkhole.