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Sinkhole response advice: immediate safety action, contact authorities, & how to find appropriate repair experts

Sinkhole repair advice:

How to contact sinkhole authorities, & find appropriate sinkhole damage or foundation damage repair experts.

This article describes the type of engineering or excavator or foundation repair contrctor repair servicves you will need. We include directories of sinkhole repair contractor services by geographic area.

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Sinkhole Safety Actions & Repair Contractors

Quick clay landslide, Surte Sweden 1950  - Wikimedia commons Watch out: Readers trying to diagnose and deal with sudden soil subsidence or yard collapses should

see SINKHOLES - IMMEDIATE SAFETY ACTIONS .

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Call your local building department for advice on prompt sinkhole assessment as well as for their advice about which excavation contractors or foundation repair contractors in your immediate area have experience with sinkhole diagnosis and repair.

In some circumstances you may need to contact an engineering firm who have sinkhole expertise, typically listed under civil engineers or geotechnical engineer.

Also see SINKHOLES, WARNING SIGNS.

The sinkhole-tipped-over house above and the page top sinkhole photo are discussed

at SINKHOLES on LEDA CLAY FORMATIONS

 

Sinkhole Repair Services in Florida

 

Sinkhole Repair Services for New York

Watch out:  Readers trying to diagnose and deal with sudden soil subsidence or yard collapses should

see SINKHOLES - IMMEDIATE SAFETY ACTIONS .

Also see CESSPOOL SAFETY WARNINGS as those hazards can also apply to drywells and septic tan

and also see SINKHOLES, WARNING SIGNS

Additional septic system safety warnings are at SEPTIC & CESSPOOL SAFETY .

Call your local building department for advice on prompt sinkhole assessment as well as for their advice about which excavation contractors or foundation repair contractors in your immediate area have experience with sinkhole diagnosis and repair. In some circumstances you may need to contact an engineering firm who have sinkhole expertise, typically listed under civil engineers or geotechnical engineer.

The following companies identify themselves as sinkhole damage repair experts in New York:

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On 2019-06-29 - by (mod) - What type of fill is best to use with a depressed area but no definite sink hole is found?

If it's truly not a sinkhole in there's no opening in the bottom no fill should be washing away. Typically holds like that that aren't a sinkhole or filled with rubble and topped with sufficient depth of topsoil that you can grow what you want or where there's grass or something else

On 2019-06-28 by Frank Alvarez

What type of fill is best to use with a depressed area but no definite sink hole is found? The area is an eroded hole on the upper side of my lake with steep bank. It is 6-7 feet deep with 10 ft width and 15 feet long with vertical sides and no definite large amount of run off into the lake.

The engineer tells me it is best to fill it with sand and clay aggregate but I was thinking a coquina aggregate with shell and sand may be better to prevent it washing away. Could you give me your suggestion? Thanks

On 2018-12-03 - by (mod) - Two sink holes has opened up recently.

Be sure to take the safety suggestions we cite and call your local building department

On 2018-12-02 by Jody

Two sink holes has opened up recently. This one is about 15 feet deep. With about 7 feet of water in it. Located in Cedartown in Polk Georgia.
IMAGE LOST by older version of Clark Van Oyen’s Comments Box code - now fixed. Please re-post the image if you can. Sorry. Mod


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