CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — A road in Cherokee County has been reopened after a sinkhole opened up Sunday.
Cherokee County Sheriff’s deputies have closed Arnold Mill Road eastbound between River Laurel Way and Grimes Road while crews work on the hazard.
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Channel 2′s Courtney Francisco previously reported that sinkholes typically show themselves after heavy rain or flooding.
“During a storm where you’ve got a super heavy, couple inch or inch per hour rain, it’s hauling through the pipe, and It’s basically picking up sediment around the pipe and carrying it down the pipe,” Reese Alley, SCA Construction CEO, told Francisco. “So, the final collapse is the very product of months and months and months, or years, of erosion.”
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Channel 2 Action News has documented some of the most severe cases in the city and the counties. In some cases, entire cars and roadways are sucked into the earth.
Alley said the underground stormwater pipeline was built to last 25 to 30 years, and that time is up. Holes have formed due to rust or resettlement.
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