Dive summary:
- One week after a Florida man disappeared when a sinkhole materialized under his home, a 16-foot-deept sinkhole unexpectedly opened up in the parking lot of a Sizzlers restaurant in North Bend, Oregon and partially swallowed a garbage truck.
- The truck driver is alive and well while the truck needed to be towed out of the hole.
- Sinkholes are not uncommon to the area due to the dredge fill.
From the article:
O’Connor said the difference between this sinkhole and those found in the south is the geology. The Sizzler property, like many in the Bay Area, is built on dredge fill. Most sinkholes in the south happen in areas with large limestone deposits when those deposits are dissolved by water.
A storm line approximately 18-feet beneath the surface of the parking lot was crushed by the sinkhole’s formation.
Contractors hired by the city worked throughout the day attempting to locate the crushed pipe. Crews worked inside iron frames called coffins, which were lowered into the hole to prevent further collapse. ...
