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Giant Hole Swallows Toyota
The Miami Herald
June 18, 2008
Emilce Gomez had just paid the toll to get onto the Rickenbacker Causeway when the earth caved in.  Gomez, 47, was behind the wheel of a blue Toyota Corolla that fell into a mammoth pothole, which formed instantly in the eastbound lanes of the Rickenbacker just before rush hour Tuesday.  The hole -- estimated at 15 feet wide and at least 6 feet deep -- was the result of a water-main break of a pipe roughly 50 years old, said an official with the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department.

Old Pipes Leak Below Streets in Cleveland
Chattanooga Times/Free Press
June 1, 2008
By Randall Higgins, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.
Jun. 1--Cleveland, Tenn. -- Century-old clay utility pipes are cracking and leaking beneath some of the oldest city streets. To fix that, Cleveland Utilities has contracted with a company to install inserts to seal the leaks. "That eliminates the traffic nightmares that would occur if we dug into the streets from the surface," General Manager Tom Wheeler said at a CU board meeting last week.

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