Sinkholes in the Permian
I saw a video today, and maybe I can get feedback on it.
There is a 200' deep sinkhole in Winkler County. It's growing.
Under the Permian, there is a large layer of compressed salt. The salt used to be stable, but now the salt is slowly being dissolved by deep injection of produced water. Other causes are abandoned wells and the fact that groundwater is able to seep deep underground due to so much alteration of the subsurface due to drilling.
The result is caverns under the Permian. Every once in a while, the ground collapses and forms a sinkhole. There are about 50 areas in the Permian with this problem, and some of them have pipelines, tanks, towns, etc. over them.
No one has a solution to stabilize the ground. Professor Mike, is this true? Ever heard of this?

Everytime I hear sinkhole I think of Lake Peigneur (I think I actually spelled that one correctly) and the lesser known Corne Bayou. And I'm not even counting the "sinkholes" found all around Chicagoland due to shoddy asphalt work 😁.