Re: Louisiana: Assumption Parish Bayou Corne Sinkhole 2012-2013
http://theadvocate.com/news/5854127-...o-brief-public
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Sinkhole commissioners to brief public Wednesday night
BY DAVID J. MITCHELL
River Parishes bureau
May 01, 2013
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A majority of the 13-member Blue Ribbon Commission investigating the Assumption Parish sinkhole plans to attend a community meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Napoleonville to deliver a public briefing on the panel?s work to date, state regulators said Tuesday.
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Courreges said the commissioners, who already had been given a briefing on the sinkhole, remarked Monday that seeing the scale of the sinkhole up close and learning of the extensive responses to it were ?eye-opening.?
He reiterated DNR?s and several outside scientists? belief that a cavern failure of the kind that happened in Bayou Corne, as well as the sinkhole that resulted, have never happened in the collective experience of mining salt dome caverns with freshwater.
?Nobody has ever seen anything like this before,? Courreges said...
BY DAVID J. MITCHELL
River Parishes bureau
May 01, 2013
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A majority of the 13-member Blue Ribbon Commission investigating the Assumption Parish sinkhole plans to attend a community meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Napoleonville to deliver a public briefing on the panel?s work to date, state regulators said Tuesday.
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Courreges said the commissioners, who already had been given a briefing on the sinkhole, remarked Monday that seeing the scale of the sinkhole up close and learning of the extensive responses to it were ?eye-opening.?
He reiterated DNR?s and several outside scientists? belief that a cavern failure of the kind that happened in Bayou Corne, as well as the sinkhole that resulted, have never happened in the collective experience of mining salt dome caverns with freshwater.
?Nobody has ever seen anything like this before,? Courreges said...
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