Engineers returned to do more tests at a hole that had grown to 20 feet deep and 30 feet wide and that officials said was “seriously unstable.”
Florida Sinkhole Growing As Engineers Investigate
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, New York Times
Sat, 03/02/2013 - 10:16am
Topics: florida florida sinkhole sinkhole
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