Sinkhole urban areas due to water main breaks or sewer collapses when old pipes give way. They can also occur from the overpumping and extraction of groundwater and subsurface fluids. Sinkholes can also form when natural water-drainage patterns are changed and new water-diversion systems are developed. Some sinkholes form when the land surface is changed, such as when industrial and runoff-storage ponds are created; the substantial weight of the new material can trigger a collapse of the roof of an existing void or cavity in the subsurface, resulting in development of a sinkhole. Sinkholes tend to occur in karst landscapes. Karst
Pipe Creek Sinkhole Mammalian finds include an early rhinoceros ("Teleoceras", possibly from the Miocene epoch), canids, peccaries and short-faced bear. Backed by a grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers from the Indiana State Museum and several universities substantially completed field work at the sinkhole in the summer of 2004, but there was about one weeklong dig a year from 2005 to 2011. What probably was the last work at the site took place in 2014, with scientists and volunteers screening soil previously removed from the sinkhole. Pipe Creek Sinkhole Pipe Creek Sinkhole near Swayzee in Grant County, Indiana, is one of the