Of course if it IS an indian grave they will declare it a historical site and confiscate the land.
Might be best if you quietly fill it in and never speak of it again.
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My yard is screwed and I need some help!!!!
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Of course if it IS an indian grave they will declare it a historical site and confiscate the land.
Might be best if you quietly fill it in and never speak of it again.
I've got a few small spots in my yard that we're sinking in. I dug down and found the remains of old tree stumps that were never removed after the trees were cut down and they've just rotted away.
Now THAT IS a swimming pool!!!
The cost to dig it up is a huge unknown. This is the only way to 100% guarantee a permanent solution. Spending thousands to just bring in the dirt and lay sod is a gamble. It may fix it, it might not. I do this type of work and have seen trash piles dug up larger than the property the job sat on. You get started having it removed to find the trash pile extends to the neighbors property. It could also be a compromised storm drainage line. Think long and hard before you start throwing money at it.
I had a dumptruck load put on it about 6 years ago, I did not have the means to compact the dirt (other than me driving my truck over it a few times) so the two feet it has dropped is due to the soil settling (I'm hoping). The whole thing is only about 15 to 20' across and it has not all fallen the same amount, it ranges from around a 6" drop to 2 feet. The sinkhole straddles my yard and my neighbors yard right on a landscape wall, I am not going to repair the wall this time, I am merely going to build up my side of this time. I doubt I am going to dig up the sinkhole to the bottom, I will most likely just put dirt on it again and resod....
Eventually the bodies will completely decay and the area will be compacted again.
Just put a junk car in it and call it art. That's what we do, but we have no sink holes, just junk cars.
I must offer my sincerest apologies to cskiles. I mistook this post as a genuine request for help with a sink hole.
No apologies needed, that's where it started...I just slowly but surely watched it digress. LOL
