Looks like another banner week for the Mariner East pipeline.
Last week we learned that the FBI is investigating how Gov. Tom Wolf's administration handled the permitting process and whether pressure was applied to green light the project.
Then there was a leak in an old Sunoco petroleum pipeline valve station that sparked a 'shelter in place' order for a Middletown neighborhood and complaints from the head of Delaware County Emergency Services that the county was never notified of the leak, that contracts from the company were already on the site when first responders arrived, and that he continues to be upset by the lack of cooperation from the company.
If that was not enough, there is now word of still another sinkhole, this time again in Middletown off Forge Road. It's an area that has proved susceptible to sinkholes in the past.
No injuries have been reported, and there is no leak involved.
The sinkhole is believed to be 15 to 20 feet wide, 30 feet long and 20 feet deep, according to township officials.
The township has dispatched a crew to the site.
None of this is going to do anything to ease the long-festering concerns of people who have been living with this thing in their back yards now for years.
We talk about it on today's editorial page.
You can read Middletown Township's statement on the situation here.
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