Security footage obtained by CBS affiliate KMOV reveals the second the sinkhole opened up at Gordon Moore Park. It reveals a stadium gentle sinking and plumes of particles billowing into the air.
“It was surreal,” Michael Haynes, the director of town’s parks and recreation division, instructed the station. “Kind of like a film the place the bottom simply falls out from beneath you.”
Footage captured by 618 Drone Service reveals the big gap, which is estimated to be no less than 30 toes deep and 100 toes vast.
The collapse is considered a results of a working mine, Hayes instructed KMOV. No accidents had been reported.
“The mines have been right here and on this space for many years and many years,” Haynes stated. “It’s by no means been introduced up earlier than so I’m instructed it is an anomaly. We’ll wait till the investigation is full.”
The turf fields the place the collapse occurred had been added to the park in 2019, Haynes instructed the station, costing over $1 million. He did not count on town to should pay for repairs.
All scheduled occasions had been canceled and Gordon Moore Park was closed “whereas the sinkhole investigation is being accomplished,” Alton Parks and Recreation stated on social media.
The New Frontier Materials firm instructed KMOV that the impacted space was secured and will probably be off-limits whereas inspectors and consultants look at the mine and conduct repairs.
The metropolis of Alton, Illinois, is positioned about 18 miles north of St. Louis, Missouri.
CBS News has reached out to the New Frontier Materials firm and town of Alton for extra data.
