12/1/16
by News Department on 12/01/16Work continues...
Crews continue working to save a home in Schuylkill County threatened by a mine subsidence that opened up in early November.
Workers have installed beams to support the home and have since poured more than 70 truckloads of flow able concrete to fill the tunnel.
The hole at the surface is only 30 feet deep, but it is connected at a diagonal angle to an old mine vein or tunnel which runs more than 200 feet deep and is about six feet wide. To prevent another mine collapse, the plan is to fill the entire tunnel with concrete. In total, engineers estimate it will take a total of 180 trucks of flowable concrete to fill the old mine vein.
State and federal money from DEP and other agencies is paying to fill the mine subsidence and stabilize the home. But the family who lived there did not have mine subsidence insurance so they will be responsible for the damage to the home.
