Sinkhole Neighbours Fear for Safety of Their Homes After 12-Metre Pit Emerges

Officials ‘confident’ tunnel boring machine contributed to huge sinkhole

‘Lucky it didn’t happen when we’ve got a lot of people on the ground for training.’

Major sinkhole opens up on popular Melbourne footy field

Tunnel boring machines were operating just metres from where the oval surface gave way.

Allan govt confirms North East Link machines ‘factor’ in sinkhole opening

Victorian government experts have confirmed that the tunnel boring machines are a “factor” in a sinkhole opening up in the city’s north and that all works had stopped indefinitely with a “full investigation to occur”.

Sinkhole neighbours fear for safety of their homes after 12-metre pit emerges

People taking their evening walks were stunned as a large hole opened up on the oval of AJ Burkitt Reserve in Heidelberg, Melbourne. There are concerns the sinkhole may have been caused by North East Link tunnel-boring machines currently just north of the area.