By: Wunderground.com, 12/30/2013
BAYOU CORNE, La. — A massive sinkhole in Bayou Corne, La. is in more trouble, after the level surrounding it cracked during a wave of underground micro-tremors. It's the second times in less than two months that the levee has cracked, Assumption Parish officials say. It's in the same place the earth-and-limestone levee sank a bit and cracks developed in late October, The Advocate reported. Those were repaired. The levee was built to keep the salty and sometimes oily water out of surrounding freshwater swamps after a salt dome cavern operated by Texas Brine Co. collapsed deep underground and the sinkhole developed in August 2012.
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