THE very important question of subsidence resulting from mining operations has recently been discussed in a bulletin issued by the Engineering Experiment Station of the University of Illinois.

Human activity is causing subsidence in large areas of the Netherlands. Primary causes are the lowering of the groundwater level to keep our feet dry and the construction of residential areas and ...

In the Netherlands, like for many low-lying urban regions of the world, subsidence poses a silent but very real threat to many parts of the built environment. If we do nothing, the costs of damage ...

In addition to stabilizing subsidence-prone areas ... “The only bad thing was some people’s floor drains went into the mine, and they had to reroute that.” Environmental program manager ...