BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A massive sinkhole that has swallowed more than 5 acres of land in Assumption Parish and contaminated an aquifer has cost the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources more than $2 million for response efforts.

And there’s no estimate of when the emergency response needs will end.

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