Subsidence project in Weathersfield

MINERAL RIDGE — A team that has worked in Weathersfield Township on a mine stabilization project for the past month plans to start another project in the township over the next several weeks.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Mineral Resources Management will send a crew to the Oakview Drive area to measure subsidence.

In geology and surveying, “subsidence” is the motion of a surface, usually, the earth’s surface, as it shifts downward.

Derek Collins, chief geologist of the ODNR, Division of Mineral Resources Management, said the department’s mine subsidence crews have been working in Mineral Ridge during late August and in September on Edwards Street in response to several complaints from residents about sagging in their yards, depressions or open holes.

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