“Hey, did you hear about the new cavern down at Carlsbad?” he asked. “Yeah, I heard about it a long time ago. How do you say that Letakee or Lechu,  it has a strange name, I remember that,” he reported. “No, no, I don’t mean Lechuguilla Cave, I’m talking about the new one south of town.”  “Well, yeah, they are south of town, all the way out to White City.” “Man, where you been. I talking about the one about to form down at the south y. It appears to be huge.” “Oh, so you mean it is brand new. No, I have not heard about it,  but I am not surprised. Who digging it? Is there something else we can store down there. Most things at Carlsbad are underground, aren’t they?”

Now folks ought not be talking like that, huh? All in jest, my Carlsbad friends, but it is somewhat ironic, huh? For those of my readers that have not heard, apparently a brine water company pumped brine water from underneath the city leaving a void underground and now some of the city has been falling in or is in danger of falling in. And there seems to be a real danger of further sinking of the city, just how much is unknown. In the paper today, the State of New Mexico and the City of Carlsbad are suing the company involved for 2.6 million dollars. But that makes me wonder, how much is, say a third of the city worth? or a 1/4. Interesting….If it does join up with the Caverns, what then? Will this allow rain water and sewage into the caverns. Then how much will the law suit be?…. It can’t get all the way over to the WIPP site can it? I really am kidding folks, cause it is serious stuff. But in reality, when you think of caverns forming and the number of miles of cavern involved south of the city…what is the earth like underneath Carlsbad? I just wondered…Kind of scary, ain’t it…Makes you want to sleep with your miners light on, huh?….