I was raised only 20 miles from here. I havent been back in over 21 years but It I still remember this awesome place like it was yesterday! This sink hole is becoming larger and no one knows what it is from. Well it is just from the earth growing and contracting! There is sink holes everywhere!
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For more than two months, officials
from federal to local have been unable to pin down the source of a
natural gas leak and tremors in assumption parish.
But on Thursday a 200 by 200 foot "slurry area" has appeared in bayou corne in northern assumption parish...
The formation of the slurry area was
accompanied by a diesel-like odor that some residents said burned their
eyes and noses but dissipated by midmorning Friday...
Assumption parish officials declared
an emergency and called for an evacuation of residents living near the
nearly 1-acre muddy site.
A potential failure of a cavern
operated by Texas brine company may have caused the slurry area, or
sinkhole, which swallowed full-grown trees and denuded a formerly
forested patch of cypress swamp.
Final determination of a positive
link between the failure of the cavern and either the natural gas
bubbling or the slurry area has not been made.
In response, gov. bobby jindal declared an emergency Friday.
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