HY101 Sinkhole near Brookings
It seems that there is a major sinkhole across the entire highway near Brookings, OR. Link
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If I read the accounts correctly the problems started a month ago with a sink hole in the restaurant parking lot. A company was working on pumping it out and getting at the failed culvert when the downstream end of the culvert failed, creating the large slide that consumed the side road. 101 crosses the culvert upstream, and the holes have eating into the highway itself. In the video link that I posted 101 traffic was being diverted to the center lanes. Since then they have stopped all 101 traffic, diverting it on to the harbor side road (adding about 10 minutes to the drive).
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In the latest drone video (youtube) the sinkhole is nearly full of water. It extends half way into one lane of the highway (4lanes). There's a dark strip across the other lanes with an excavator with compactor head nearby. Does that mean they are breaking up the pavement to dig a trench or applying a patch over an already dug and filled trench?
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In the latest drone video (youtube) the sinkhole is nearly full of water. It extends half way into one lane of the highway (4lanes). There's a dark strip across the other lanes with an excavator with compactor head nearby. Does that mean they are breaking up the pavement to dig a trench or applying a patch over an already dug and filled trench?
