A dozen multi-million homes in Southwest Vancouver are being threatened by a leaking aquifer.
It started back in September when an unlicensed drilling company tapped into the underground water supply. Since then, millions of litres a day has been flowing out of the ground on Beechwood Street near West 54 Avenue.
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The water is eroding the soil and creating the risk of a sinkhole.
The homeowners are on evacuation alert.
“It’s like washing a cavern, underground, around that hole, and that’s what effectively, after a while, it gets so big that it comes near the surface,” said Henry Neugebauer, a retired geologist. “It might be a few feet below the surface and all of a sudden it just collapses.”
“That’s the sinkhole.”