Nova Scotia sinkhole is largely unchanged – for now, geologist says
OXFORD, N.S. — As residents of a small Nova Scotia town gathered Thursday for a public information session about what created a large and active sinkhole near a busy Tim Hortons, a geologist suggested the high-tech tools needed to solve the mystery could soon be on their way.
Amy Tizzard, a regional geologist with the provincial Department of Energy and Mines, said the muddy sinkhole remains almost as big as two basketball courts — but it hasn’t grown much in the last week.
“I wouldn’t say that it’s done, though,” she said in an interview from Oxford, N.S., a town of 1,000 roughly 30 minutes from the New Brunswick border.
“It’s still an unpredictable situation … (But) it’s still eroding along its margins, only on the centimetre scale.”