Too broke. The city borrowed $300 million to upgrade a trash incinerator. Meanwhile, the pipes under the city are a disaster and the sewage plant is polluting the Susquehanna River.
One sinkhole is 50 feet across and 8 feet deep, and they've just put police barricades around it. To deal with the desperate decay, locals are using the old strategy of humor — naming it "Super Sinkhole Walter" and designating it as a sightseeing point of interest on the travel website Foursquare.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
There are 41 sinkholes in the Pennsylvania state capital Harrisburg and the city isn't fixing them.
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economics,
environmentalism,
Pennsylvania
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