Pa, UNITY. Hundreds of cubic yards of grout are currently being poured into a sinkhole where a woman from Pennsylvania died last month in an effort to stabilize the area.
Days after emergency personnel discovered the body of 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard on Dec. 6, four days after she vanished while looking for her cat, the work in the community of Marguerite, located roughly 40 miles east of Pittsburgh, began. About half a mile from her house, the sinkhole was close to a restaurant.
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, crews have subsequently injected more than 3,300 cubic yards of grout into the site; however, the completion date of the job is still unknown. Snow and bitterly cold weather this week forced the construction to be halted, but officials anticipate starting up again shortly.
According to state environmental inspectors, the workers are carefully placing 12–16 boreholes throughout the land. Each is being pumped with a grout mixture that resembles cement. As it solidifies, the grout will gradually spread over an area of about 25 feet, creating broad pillars that will support the ground above.
According to officials, the sinkhole may have only recently emerged above the coal mine until roughly 70 years ago, and it appears to have started as a manhole-sized opening. In the hours preceding Pollard’s disappearance, local hunters and restaurant employees told authorities they had failed to notice the sinkhole.