Massive sinkhole and biochord are inches away from seeping into the freshwater bio. A protection levee built to keep that material in the sinkhole is sinking. This is arian pitmigot's answers on what could happen if the protection wall gives way. The assumption pairs officials fear the break of the berm could cause major environmental damage in the area, leaving them on high alert. Another year and the same problems in biochord. It's a little bit frustrating that you know all this time has elapsed that here we are, we're still worried about the sinkhole. A growing sinkhole, continuous seismic activity, it cracks in the protection berm around the sinkhole. There's still a lot of things going on way below the surface of the earth where we can't really tell what's going on. If that salt berm is still subsiding, still cracking, that means something's happening down below. Since last week activity along the sinkhole has stopped because increase of amounts of micro-earth quates, because of those small quates, the protection wall is dropping into the sinkhole. At this point you would think we'd have a clearer picture in our mind as far as what to expect in the future, but that future is still very cloudy right now. Since October the berm has dropped a total of 3 feet and within the last week is dropped a foot alone, leaving residents and officials here in a sub-short parish concerned. The subsides itself is only about 6 to 8 inches above the water currently. Meeting salt water could eventually creep into the swamp and buy you if nothing is done. Take a look at these pictures, you can see how much the berm has sunk since last week. Environmental risk to vegetation trees, possibly fish and so forth, and try to avoid that, and that's what the containment is for. But residents will remain hopeful in 2014. We hope for the best, we hope we can bring some conclusion to this, but I really think the sinkhole itself will be dealing with that, I think, from years to come. Us folks, person 4 Texas Bryant sales crews will begin repeating the berm tomorrow, and there are plans in the works to extend the southern berm, so I won't continue to subside. Need your equipment WBRZ news to. You