Index: Sinkholes & Subsidences
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Article Index for information about sinkhole & subsidence formation: how do we recognize the development of a potentially-dangerous sinkhole, subsidence, what do we do immediately to assure safety around sinkholes?
Sinking building or settlement? Who evaluates subsidences or sinkholes and how is that analysis performed?
What are the repair steps for sinkholes or sinking buildings?
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Index to articles about sinkholes, subsidences & building settlement
Watch out: sinkholes and subsidences can be very dangerous, threatening both building collapse or a fatality if someone falls into such an opening. Even in areas where sinkholes do not commonly occur, local subsidences or sinkholes around man-made constructions such as septic tanks and cesspools are also dangerous.
Readers should see SINKHOLES - IMMEDIATE SAFETY ACTIONS , and also see FOUNDATION CRACKS & DAMAGE GUIDE and CESSPOOL SAFETY WARNINGS .
Additional septic system safety warnings are at SEPTIC & CESSPOOL SAFETY .
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