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Land subsidence outside of Ruler Foods in Belleville, Ill., where an old mine below the store caused the land surrounding the building to sink into the ground on Sept. 26, 2023.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Brandon Damm said the Edwardsville office of the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Division had no reports of mine subsidence as of noon Thursday.
“It’s messing with our lives in a big way,” said a neighbor who lives behind the Ruler Foods store.
The Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals' Springfield Mine Rescue Station is a historic facility located at 609 Princeton Avenue in Springfield, Illinois.Built in 1910–11, it was the first dedicated state-run institution in the United States established to prevent and respond to mining disasters.
SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands. SMCRA also created the Office of Surface Mining , an agency within the Department of the Interior , to promulgate regulations, to fund state regulatory and reclamation efforts, and to ensure consistency among state regulatory programs.
Subsidence (the sinking of land) may occur after considerable production of oil or ground water. Oil, and, less commonly, gas extraction, has caused land subsidence in a small percentage of fields. Significant subsidence has been observed only where the hydrocarbon reservoir is very thick, shallow, and composed of loose or weakly cemented rock ...
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Shortly after the start of the 2017-2018 school year, the Wolf Branch Middle School suffered significant mine subsidence resulting from a movement that occurred in the abandoned, underground mine. Engineers from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources - Surface Mining Division determined that the west half of the school had dropped ...