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Small hole appears at Largo Mall
Largo, Fla.-(970WFLA)-After the Seffner sinkhole, the hole that opened at the Largo Mall is small by comparison. This sinkhole is roughly ten feet long and just several feet wide.
The hole in the mall's parking lot area shows only about a three feet gap on the surface, but expands underground.
The good news about the small sinkhole at the mall, at Ulmerton Road and Seminole Boulevard, is that nobody fell into the hole or is injured.
A safety barricade was put up around the sinkhole until it can be stabilized.
Read more: http://www.970wfla.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=124415&article=11016350#ixzz2MUXunIG1
This is near where I live.
niyad
(112,435 posts)all stay safe.
Tony_FLADEM
(3,023 posts)doc03
(35,148 posts)hay rick
(7,521 posts)Relates sinkholes to agricultural depletion of aquifer.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)But the main cause is that the underground aquifer disolves the limestone bedrock over time.