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The collapse of an abandoned underground cavern in a salt dome where a Texas company was extracting brine is being blamed for the sinkhole spawned this summer and contamination of an aquifer in a sparsely populated area of swampland west of New Orleans.
The Louisiana Office of Conservation said new data shows that a series of problems, natural gas bubbling up in local bayous and a growing sinkhole that's swallowed about 4 acres of swamp forest, are linked to the collapse of an underground cavern that Houston-based Texas Brine Co. LLC operated.
