I googled "geology"

 

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/oct/20/e...les-forming-at/

 

State Department of Veterans Affairs officials are still trying to determine what has caused two large holes to develop at the newly-opened East Tennessee Veterans Cemetery on East Gov. John Sevier Highway.

 

A 20-foot hole showed up a couple of weeks ago, and then another appeared last week. The holes forced postponement of the Oct. 28 official opening of the state's newest veterans cemetery.

 

Don Smith, assistant commissioner of veterans affairs, toured the cemetery grounds Thursday. He said the opening will be delayed until state officials determine what prompted the holes to appear and then get them fixed.

 

He said engineers put a camera inside a large drain pipe this week to search for the cause of the jagged depression in the west end of the cemetery.

 

"It showed that the ground had dipped," he said.

 

Both holes, which Smith does not yet classify as sinkholes, are near the cemetery's Committal Building, where funeral ceremonies take place. The largest hole is slightly east of the building where drainage runs into a 10-acre flood plain.

 

The smaller hole, about 6 feet or so in diameter, is in a curbed traffic island near parking spaces for the Committal Building.

 

Smith pointed out water seepage in the cemetery's asphalt circular road near the office building. That could be from an underground aquifer, he said.

 

He said if an aquifer is the source, engineers have told him it would be an easy fix to divert the aquifer to the cemetery drainage system.

 

Next week, engineers will again be on site to dig near the large drain pipe to see if a cause for the depression can be determined, Smith said.

 

The 70-acre cemetery opened Sept. 15 with the interment of Army Col. Jack Roger Harris, whose family owned the farm site in East Knox County before selling it to the state. So far 45 veterans have been buried in the new facility.

 

Smith said no burials have occurred where the holes are, nor are any interments planned there.

 

However, some geologic reports indicate the cemetery sits on top of limestone rock — conducive to sinkholes — known to geologists as karst.

 

Harry Moore, retired Tennessee Department of Transportation regional geo-technical engineer, a well-known geologist and author of geologic history of East Tennessee, said the old farm is in a karst area.

 

"Right across (the French Broad River, which borders the cemetery), you are in cave country," Moore said.

 

Moore said that since there are sinkholes and caves across the river, there is a strong likelihood that there are sinkholes and caves beneath the cemetery.

 

"The geology does not change, so there would be a propensity for sinkholes," he said.

 

Smith said he was satisfied engineering and geologic tests prior to cemetery construction were sufficient.

 

"They tested down to 35 feet for sinkholes and didn't find anything," he said.

 

"But, East Tennessee is full of sinkholes," he said.

 

i expect him to reply.

I love drunk Heads.

I am here to "represent".

So...I'm supposed to show up and do the limestone dissolution dance? Would it help if I were pantsless?

So...I'm supposed to show up and do the limestone dissolution dance? Would it help if I were pantsless?

 

You already know the answers to these questions.

You already know the answers to these questions.

 

It is Friday afterall.

So...I'm supposed to show up and do the limestone dissolution dance? Would it help if I were pantsless?

The laughing...it hurts.

The laughing...it hurts.

That's why the true version is done pantsless. Much less pain.

That's why the true version is done pantsless. Much less pain.

 

For you maybe...