Photo courtesy of AR Land Commissioner John Thurston.
A sinkhole on a local river has been closed. Arkansas Land Commissioner John Thurston posted on Facebook Thursday night his office and other agencies were able to close the sinkhole on the Spring River south of Mammoth Spring that led to the death of a Searcy man nearly a month ago.
Thurston stated crews used a track hoe to collapse the travertine roof. The land commissioner said the work the crews performed allowed the gap to be closed and the water hazard to be removed.
The sinkhole opened below Sadler Falls and claimed the life of Donny Wright on June 10th. Wright was with a group of men he helped to house and mentor through the Life Recovery Center. Crews with the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission had to rope off the area near where the whirlpool formed.
Thurston said his office worked with Arkansas Attorney General’s office, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Arkansas Department of Transportation, the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, Fulton County Sheriff Al Roork, Fulton County Judge Darrell Zimmer, the Fulton County Department of Emergency Management, Governor Asa Hutchinson’s office and State Senator Missy Irvin.
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