Surface lands are collapsing.
No doubt about that
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Case In Point: $10 Million Sunk Into Development of Mesa's Elliot Road Tech Corridor and more millions spent on Infinite Suburbia all across The East Valley: What's the price we pay for draining down underground water aquifers in this time of Drought? 
Here in Mesa water treatment and wastewater treatment are eating up more than $160 Million Dollars every year.
The new Signal Butte Water Treatment, built at a cost of over $185,000,000 to supply demands from data centers who use excessive supplies of water (and provide only about six or "a hand-full of jobs" are driving up costs to taxpayers.
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Three sinkholes in Mesa
Published: 6:38 PM PST August 13, 2018
https://www.12news.com/video/news/local/...sinkholes.../75-8219149
2 days ago
Three sinkholes are near trench lines that exist because of three separate contractors. Elliot Road will be closed from Signal Butte to Ellsworth until the sinkholes are evaluated and repaired. Link to video from Channel 12 News >> https://www.12news.com/video/news/local
HUH? Blame it on the contractors?
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www.azfamily.com/story/38878037/sinkholes-close-mesa-road-until-repairs-completed
2 days ago - Three serious sinkholes have closed a road in Mesa for at least a couple more days following monsoon storms.
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Here's another Sinkhole video from Gilbert uploaded in the same month February 2016
where another sinkhole swallowed-up and killed a farmhand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eBvKLwN6rw
Feb 23, 2016 - Uploaded by ABC15 Arizona
A sinkhole opened up on Greenfield Road in Gilbert on Tuesday morning. ◂ ABC15 is your destination for ...
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Both are monsters consuming natural limited resources that tap into and drain sub-surface groundwater aquifers causing a series over-time that create collapses above-ground. They are not infrequent nor isolated.
The Arizona Department of Water Resources says land subsidence has been happening here since the early 1900s. Scientists at ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration blame large amounts of groundwater that was pumped years ago and report it “has the potential to cause costly structural damages,” according to ASU researcher Megan Miller in a report from the Arizona Association of Realtors titled Arizona Sinkholes: Disclosure & Liability. You can read it here
Sinkholes are occuring in current and past land-use planning areas, including agricultural lands in fast-growing Queen Creek, according to this report in February 2016 from The Washington Post.
Who's benefiting?
Real estate developers
Who's paying the price outside of southeast Mesa? Everyone
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Blogger Note: Just like the sinkholes causing the collapses on Elliott Road, these are not "isolated incidents" no matter how much the fast-growing Town of Queen Creek wanted to manage the public perception of the risks and hazards
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‘It was a freak act of nature’:
Sinkhole swallows and kills Arizona farmhand
by Lindsey Bever
A sinkhole opened Feb. 5, 2016, in Queen Creek, Ariz., killing 60-year-old irrigation worker Guadalupe Gomez Nila. (Courtesy of Town of Queen Creek)
"An Arizona irrigation worker drove his pickup truck up to a berm, stepped out of the vehicle and dropped the tailgate. Seconds later, a neighbor told authorities, the earth opened and swallowed him . . .
The neighbor, who was in her garden, “saw his arms go up in the air,” Maricopa County Sheriff’s Det. Doug Matteson told The Washington Post. “She didn’t see him get up, so she called 911.”
Police said 60-year-old Guadalupe Gomez Nila was killed Friday afternoon when he was swallowed by the sinkhole — which measured 15 feet wide and 12 to 18 feet deep.
“It was a freak act of nature,” Matteson said. “It’s just a sad scene. When the hole opened up, it was almost like being struck by lightning. … Our heart goes out to his family. . .
Officials said Nila was working on private property owned by Sossaman Farms. Matteson, the sheriff’s detective, said authorities believe Nila was planning to shut off the water or check on it when the ground split open. . .
Constance Halonen-Wilson, public information officer for the town of Queen Creek, said officials believe the sinkhole was an isolated incident.
“Crews worked to repair and fill the hole on Saturday,” she told The Post in a statement. “We are working with the Arizona State Geological Survey Office to ensure the area is safe.” HUH??
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READY FOR ALL THE HAPPY TALK AND OVER-BLOWN HOOP-LA:
Power, land, water, natural gas, fiber, market access, quick entitlement process, Foreign Trade Zone – the Elliot Road Technology Corridor has everything ...
The City of Mesa is excited about an upcoming project that will transform Elliot Road into a "Technology Corridor" to serve as an economic development catalyst
Apr 19, 2018 - Mesa to sink $10 million into Elliot Road expansion for tech corridor. Mesa will sink $10 million into improvements along Elliot Road from Ellsworth to Signal Butte roads to alter the stretch into a "technology corridor." The changes will expand Elliot from a single-lane road to a three-way stretch in both directions.
Mar 2, 2018 - Mesa, and the Elliot Road Tech Corridor in particular, was an attractive site for a variety of reasons, including ready access to the significant power, water and fiber infrastructure a large data center requires. The corridor is near SRP's Browning receiving station and 500kV, 230kV and 69kV transmission lines.
Jan 18, 2018 - Mesa lands data center in Elliot Road Tech Corridor. A new data center development is coming to Mesa in the Elliot Road Tech Corridor on a long-dormant parcel of land once slated to become a regional shopping and employment center.
www.azfamily.com/story/38291320/mesa-hopes-to-court-companies-with-tech-corridor
May 28, 2018 - The city is making a big push to entice companies to move to what they are calling the "Elliot Road Tech Corridor." Places like Apple are ...
Mar 5, 2018 - A new Denver-based data center developer has plans to break ground on three facilities across the country this year and has chosen Mesa's ...
ktar.com/story/1983402/edgecore-breaks-ground-campus-mesa-technology-corridor/
Mar 9, 2018 - Located in the Elliot Road Technology Corridor near Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, EdgeCore selected the site to be its first North American ...
