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DAISETTA, Texas — The giant Texas sinkhole that formed last week is now a lake big enough to become the home of an alligator.
Area residents think the reptile was washed into the crater by water from surrounding swamps. Ground water is seeping into the hole, and its exposed walls are about 30 feet high, the Houston Chronicle reported in its online edition Friday.
Sightings of an alligator in the sinkhole were confirmed Friday when a Texas Railroad Commission worker snapped photographs.
The sinkhole in the small southeast Texas town of Daisetta began as a 20-foot hole in the ground but rapidly grew to 900 feet across at its widest point and 260 feet deep.
