I don't have a link for this, it hasn't made it on the net or the news, A bus had to be rerouted due to a sinkhole
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Usually the explanations given by the media for sinkholes is aging pipes or excessive rain. In Vancouver its been quite dry ( for a city on the edge of a rain forest) and unlike most American cities, aging pipes most likely isn't the problem... most of its aging sewers and pipes were replaced before the winter olympics. The entire city underwent a major face lift.
I'm wondering, are we seeing sinkholes in places that we would not normally see them?
I remember sink holes closing I-25 in Denver a couple of years ago.
Also, this sink hole is probably not newsworthy enough to make it even in the local Vancouver news. This gets me to wondering how many more sink holes we may be experiencing in places we do not associate with sinkholes and yet we do not really hear about. A few weeks ago I saw a short blip of an article about a man that was walking down the sidewalk in Canada, I think it was Montreal???, and he fell through the sidewalk, into a sink hole that had developed there. Another person saw this and came over to try to help him out. I'm not certain why that made news, but the one Paris told us about did not. It's hard to understand these inconsistencies in the news.
Anyway, do you think there are more sinkholes now?
And, it so, how do we explain this odd increase....
Some sinkholes give way gradually and are filled in with dirt or sand from above. Others erode from the surface when easily dissolved rocks are exposed to rain and wind.
The most dangerous sinkholes are those that collapse suddenly. In some cases, the groundwater filling the underground caverns drains away because of drought or because humans divert the flow of groundwater for mining, drinking water or irrigation. Without the water supporting the roof from below, the land above crumbles. In other cases, the roof of the cavern becomes too weak to support the weight of the soil above it.