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The U.S. Geological Survey turned to Sandia National Laboratories [1] for help when the earth opened up last month near Bayou Corne, La.
Sandia’s David Borns is providing technical evaluations in weekly teleconferences about possible causes and remedies for a 300-foot-wide sinkhole there.
The sinkhole opened up overnight on Aug. 2 off the western edge of the salt dome near Bayou Corne. It was reportedly originally about 300 feet deep, but Borns said only one part was that deep; the rest was about 50 feet deep.
Read about Sandia’s work [2].
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 3:11 pm ET
