LATEST: Huge hole appears near Pickmere Lake (From Northwich Guardian)
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LATEST: Huge hole appears near Pickmere Lake
5:40pm Thursday 6th September 2012 in News
By James Wilson
THE public is being urged to stay away from a path and picnic area close to Pickmere Lake after a huge hole appeared in the ground.
Walkers discovered the 10-feet deep hole on Mere Lane, just to the eastern edge of the lake, this afternoon, Thursday, September 6 and called the Police.
An officer from the Council’s green spaces team has now been dispatched to the site to assess the danger and issue a closure notice.
No one has been hurt.
Do you have a picture of the hole? If so, email it to knutsford@guardiangrp.co.uk.
birtie says...
9:31pm Thu 6 Sep 12
Pick Mere and Budworth Mere are both thought to be the result of ground water dissolving the halite beds at depth.
Chances are this hole is the result of a similar process. It's not uncommon.
A similar thing happened at Maton Hole near Whitegate. It's grown considerably since the first collapse but the same subsurface processes are thought to have been the cause of its formation.