Eddy michelleEngineers working to repair a synchron, who appeared in the Godstone High Street in Surrey six months ago, say the collapse began with a burst water.
They have spent months in an attempt to map the range of a network of sand mines under the village, but say they are not ready to blame the water leakage for the presence of holes.
The work to repair the road will not be completed by December, which will not be completed as soon as possible due to the difficulty of detecting caves under the ground, although A Pavement section Has opened again in recent times.
Meanwhile Godstone separated from the shutdown of the road, and some businesses have been damaged Large drops in business.
supplyInfrastructure Manager Lloyd Alan, who is overseeing Sinkhol for the Surrey County Council (SCC), confirmed that one water head had created a big pit in the road, but said “We don’t know what causes the main burst”.
He said that engineers responded to the call about the presence of hole, immediately realized that the water was disappearing under the ground.
Mr. Alan said: “It is a large amount of water naturally for soaking in sand.
“So that’s why we started our investigation, talked to those who lived in the area who know about the mines.
“It took a few months using a lot of different techniques to find them.”
Borhols, some of them, have been operated in sandstone under the village in search of tunnels, more than 30 meters (98 ft), which they compared to play children’s sports warships.
“Sometimes you find one, sometimes you miss them,” he said, saying that the work has been made more complicated by underground electrical cable and gas and water pipes.
He said, “We have to ensure that when we have finished this thing, it does not fall down again.” “Because it is a busy road, generally, with a large lorry.”
Locked about residents Tunnel network Under Godstone for decades.
He was dug in the mid-1800s as high quality sand in the area was excavated to supply glass-makers.
Informal mines were designed by property owners to excavate under their gardens and to make tunnels warns that are now causing such headaches to SCC engineers.
The BBC has confirmed that a tunnel in the area is still accessible through a closed entrance, but agrees not to give people a place to avoid trying to break.
However, a local businessman said he was in a tunnel in recent weeks, passing on a photo of a fully protected place in Sandstone.
Mr. Alan said that he had never dealt with the problem of engineering, as most landslides and sinkhols were naturally created by geology.
Now it can take 20 minutes to drive around the diversion required to separate about 100 yards from one side of the hole.
Julia Gregory/BBCSome residents have enjoyed the lack of passing traffic and do not want the road to open again, but the decline in passing trade has closed cafes for a few weeks.
Zamindar of Green and Hounds Pub, Which has faced a 40% decline in customers, says that Sinkhol separated his pub from the M25 and “cut the village in half”.
Mark Kalinan said that when this happened for the first time, he thought “Okay, it is going to get hurt for a few weeks”.
“And then they are telling you that there are caves,” he said.
“If we are lucky, it will remain open till December. If we are not lucky, then three months later.”
This week the excavations were slowly filling in the hole and the council insisted that it was sticking to its timetable to eliminate repair until Christmas.
