Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So what you really had was a leach field with no septic tank... On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Brian Reid<reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > Richard, I think that you know that last year I vacated and sold a house > less than 1/2 mile from where you live. ?I had bought it in 1980. It was > built in 1924, which is very very old for our city. > > In 1990 when I lost patience with my ongoing sewer problems and hired a > contractor to fix it, they discovered that my sewer line had been made out > of heavy cardboard that was soaked in coal tar. After 65 years, the > original > pipe had pretty much disintegrated, and the "sewer line" was just the hole > in the hard clay that was left behind by the rotted-out cardboard pipe. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana (+31.754164,-093.099080) If you are wondering, the following abolishes Gmail ads. ;-) I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath. USA