and it's now being called the biggest pothole in Britain!
http://www.heart.co.uk/somerset/news/local/somerset-biggest-pothole-in-britain/
http://www.heart.co.uk/somerset/news/local/somerset-biggest-pothole-in-britain/
the Green Ore road collapsed again...
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Bottlebank
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Not my kind of pothole but can't help thinking wherever the original road ended up 200 tonnes of stone are likely to be heading the same way 
Spike
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When I saw the thread title I thought it had collapsed again since the weekend!
This collapse, which the article says the "engineers were quick to react" to, was open for a couple of months with a not inconsiderable void below the road (approx 6ft deep at the roadside and sloping down under the road for 8-10ft) and and an increasingly apparent depression in the road surface. It was pretty much adjacent to (on the crossroads side of) the previous collapse they filled in last February, and may perhaps have been caused by the fact they blocked all the existing drainage when they repaired that one. Over winter there was a semi-permanent large puddle there, often the full width of the road. At the end of March it disappeared when it must have found some new drainage, taking a large chunk of the substructure of the road with it.
The repair this time seemed to include some pipework across to the opposite side, where the ditch has been half filled with stone chippings to provide a different location for the soak-away. Give it another wet year and there could be another sink open up under the hedge outside the Horticultural Works.
Keeps life interesting though, and something to remember when you're sat waiting for the lights to change...
This collapse, which the article says the "engineers were quick to react" to, was open for a couple of months with a not inconsiderable void below the road (approx 6ft deep at the roadside and sloping down under the road for 8-10ft) and and an increasingly apparent depression in the road surface. It was pretty much adjacent to (on the crossroads side of) the previous collapse they filled in last February, and may perhaps have been caused by the fact they blocked all the existing drainage when they repaired that one. Over winter there was a semi-permanent large puddle there, often the full width of the road. At the end of March it disappeared when it must have found some new drainage, taking a large chunk of the substructure of the road with it.
The repair this time seemed to include some pipework across to the opposite side, where the ditch has been half filled with stone chippings to provide a different location for the soak-away. Give it another wet year and there could be another sink open up under the hedge outside the Horticultural Works.
Keeps life interesting though, and something to remember when you're sat waiting for the lights to change...
Duncan Price
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Duncan Price
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It has collapsed again. Temporary four way traffic lights last night and this morning.
Maj
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As Duncan says there is now a set of 4 way traffic lights, so factor an extra 5 minutes into your journey time, which could be important at last food order time. Last week (or perhaps the week before) they put a barrier around the sinkhole. Now they have increased the area the barrier cordons off to include half the road where the road surface has sunk a little, hence the need for the temporary 4 way traffic lights - only one lane available passed the collapse.
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