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To: cyn

Hmmm. I’m gonna plead testosterone blindness on this one.


6 posted on 03/01/2013 8:10:35 AM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: null and void; Ezekiel
Haha, maybe that's why they built ... I sure hope some later Gators come by here, I cannot find what I'm looking for re: what it takes to fill in/stabilize a sinkhole... like any info vanished into a dark hole itself!

Here's more info, scroll down to "caves":

UF Myths and Legends: Did you know the stadium was built in a sinkhole??

Campus is gutted with sinkholes, he said. The Green Pond at the Reitz Union is one, and Ben Hill Griffin Stadium is built on another.

"In 1930, when they were looking for a place to put the stadium, they said, ?Hey, that's a nice bowl,'" Van Ness said. "That's why all the lower seats are at ground level."

Van Ness said a freshwater spring is under the east stands of The Swamp. It was channeled into a nearby creek on campus. It's still flowing today, he added.

So, when we say "The Swamp", we really MEAN "the swamp"!

12 posted on 03/01/2013 8:25:28 AM PST by cyn (Benghazi...the travesty continues.)
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