Assumption Parish sinkhole consumes more land, trees
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October, 2012
Officials
say a growing, 5.5-acre sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish swamps
gobbled up another strip of land on Tuesday.
John
Boudreaux, director of the parish Office of Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness, tells The Advocate trees fell in with the
collapse, but no one was injured.
He
said the collapsed area extended from a mat road that Texas Brine Co.
of Houston has installed to clean trees, other vegetative matter and
oil out the sinkhole to a point 80 feet north or the road.
The
sinkhole is located between Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou south of La.
Highway 70.
A
failed underground brine cavern encased within a mountain of salt is
believed to have caused the sinkhole, which appeared Aug. 3.
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