Backyard Sinkhole

Particularly in georgia and florida sinkholes are a common landscape blight.

Backyard sinkhole. Using the wheelbarrow and the shovel pour wet concrete into the bottom of the sinkhole. So if the sinkhole is 4 feet 1 2 m deep fill it with 1 foot 0 3 m of concrete. If a large sinkhole appears in your backyard or if the hole threatens the foundation of your home or other buildings immediately rope off the area and contact your homeowner insurance company. The fence post at the center of the hole is about 6 lower than the other posts.

Sinkholes sunken layers in the land caused by changes in material beneath the land s surface are a serious problem in some areas. This will prevent the sinkhole from deepening further and will give a solid base to the subsequent materials you use to fill the hole. Depending on where you live sinkholes can be a major issue affecting homes and public land. There s a slight depression in the ground about 6 in diameter centered around one of the fence posts which is set in concrete.

They can be caused by the natural wearing away of one of the underground rock layers but sometimes aging utility pipes or broken septic tanks. It started out the size of a finger and ended up pretty big. Sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. A sinkhole filled with sloshing brown water has opened up in an australian backyard.

There are two types. We live in albuquerque nm. Pour a concrete plug in the sinkhole. This sinkhole started in our backyard when we were draining our pool.

Any type of weakness in the earth can cause a sinkhole. I have a sinkhole in my backyard along the fence line which began expanding during the last few months. The large circular pit appeared behind the house of ray and lynn mckay in ipswich west of brisbane.