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Sinkhole dispute grows in Chester Co, Pa.

May 22, 2013
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TREDYFFRIN TWP., Pa. – February 28, 2013 (WPVI) – A growing sinkhole in one Chester County neighborhood has a resident worried for his family’s safety.  It’s 20 feet deep and about 10 feet wide. And the homeowner says it’s not his responsibility to fix. So whose ugly and dangerous sinkhole is it? Whose property is it [...]

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Florida Citizens Looks to Reinstate Some Sinkhole, Builders Risk Coverage

May 22, 2013
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Florida Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is going back to offering some coverage it pulled back on as part of a massive property insurance bill in 2011, and other recent steps meant to reduce exposure. SB 408—and the other state-government-supported measures to cut down on Citizens’ overburdened book of business—resulted in several “unintended consequences,” says Citizens [...]

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Sinkhole Science is Actually Quite Simple

May 22, 2013
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The drama of sinkholes, in which the earth can suddenly collapse and swallow up houses, has captured the popular imagination recently, but the science is actually as simple as water and rock. Since a Florida man disappeared into a 30-foot sinkhole that opened beneath his bedroom, sinkholes around the world have been grabbing headlines. One [...]

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Sinkhole-plagued neighbors seek county’s help

May 22, 2013
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PALMYRA — Over the past two years, Gerald Dougherty has rebuilt the decorative fence that encloses the back yard of his home at 845 Pajabon Drive again and again. Each time, a persistent sinkhole on an adjacent property undid his work. Today, a big hole gapes under a portion of the fence, and Dougherty has [...]

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Two cars fall into sinkhole at Montreal’s Trudeau airport

May 22, 2013
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MONTREAL – Two cars fell into a sinkhole that opened up Friday in a parking lot near Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. The cars didn’t completely disappear — the nose of one of the cars slipped into the hole while the side of the other car was partially submerged. A spokesman for Montreal’s airport [...]

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Bartow Man Claims Home Is Over Sinkhole, But Insurance Company Says No

May 20, 2013
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BARTOW For more than a year, James Williams has been watching his house crumble around him. Daylight shines through the cracks in his laundry room walls now, and the vertical crack that began at the front of his concrete-block home now stretches across the living room floor and through the tile fireplace. He’s patched that [...]

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Why sinkholes are eating Florida

May 20, 2013
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Florida is known as the Sunshine State, but living there has a dark side, as the family of Jeff Bush discovered when the 36-year-old man was killed after a sinkhole opened beneath his house last week.  Authorities are now reporting the development of a second sinkhole in Seffner, Fla., just 2 miles (3 kilometers) from [...]

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Sinkholes present throughout southeastern Minnesota

May 20, 2013
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OWATONNA — Though there haven’t been any sinkholes that have swallowed homes in southeast Minnesota recently, that doesn’t mean they aren’t present across the landscape. Jeff Green, a hydrogeologist for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, said there are currently about 10,000 sinkholes that have been inventoried in this section of the state, but it’s [...]

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Surveillance video captures moment man is swallowed by massive sinkhole

May 20, 2013
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Security guard Yang Jiabin was walking near the entrance of a building in Shenzhen when he falls into the 16 foot wide and 52 foot deep hole, the South China Morning Post.  Local residents had previously complained about tremors from the construction project, according to a report by the paper said.  The construction site is [...]

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Springtown Sinkhole Pops Up

May 20, 2013
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Preston Barrett stands beside a large sinkhole which opened up in the backyard of his home in Springtown earlier this month. His wife Karee discovered the new feature in their yard when going to check some fruit trees in the early morning hours of March 2. She said she came close to stepping into the [...]

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