The “important vacuum” sits below a highway in New Jersey, which is suffering from a random hole over the past few months – and state officials say it may take some time to fix it.
The Ministry of Transport in New Jersey has closed the corridors heading to the east between the states in the town of Warton in the province of Morris twice in the past three months after reports that the land was its fall.
In one of those cases, the mammoth sink was opened with a four -storey building size on the shoulder of the highway in December, with the corridors closed for about four days while the workers rushed to fix it.
Now, officials say they have discovered the reason for this – there is a vacuum below the road floor surface near the 34th exit, according to NBC 4 New York.
“After completing the initial test, good news is the lack of immediate concerns about the stability of I-80 west,” said Transport Commissioner Fran O'Connor, according to the registry.
“The bad news has been determined is a large vacuum that has been identified below the I-80 Eastbound central corridor, which will require widespread and strong reform. It will take some time to design a reform that will ensure long-term integrity and safety of the road.”
“It is important to behave now for permanent repairs, so we do not have to return any time soon.”
Initially, state officials said that the damage caused by depression on February 10 – which sank about five inches on the ground – would take about three weeks to repair it.
But now state officials do not know the duration of work, or when the corridors can be reopened.
The officials added that there are about 135 potential voids in the region, and they are loaded with deserted effects.
One of these collapsed astrologers caused the large December wash.
“Underground is basically a Swiss cheese,” William Karath, Executive Director of the Sterling Mining Museum, told Pix11 at the time.
The crews do drill and swing on the ground to achieve stability on the road, according to NBC.
They will continue to work around the clock until the work ends.
