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Still Curious
So the Google says that sinkholes are typically filled with either a layer of rocks (this process I’m used to as it’s how we fill dirt potholes on gravel roads) or plugged with cement.
The cement plug causes a problem because in instances like Guatemala’s sinkhole, it doesn’t address the problem of drainage, and just makes the water divert elsewhere and create a sinkhole under someone else’s business.
But the problem with the Guatemalan sinkhole is that it wasn’t just a few feet deep, it was 100. A 10 story building.
I’ve yet to find something on how they’re going about fixing it, but at least Slate had some pointers on the two techniques touched upon up above.
