Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/13

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Subject: [Leica] There goes my M9 budget
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:54:50 -0700
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I can attest to the jackhammer part :-) Man, this soil is tough (but 
fertile).

I guess at least Joseph Eichler didn't save money that way.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Brian Reid<reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> 
wrote:
>
>> So what you really had was a leach field with no septic tank...
>
> No. The soil around here is red clay that is so hard you need a jackhammer
> to dig into it. ?A 7-inch void in the red clay was a perfectly fine
> wastewater pipe. It would have held pressure to 15 or 20PSI. The problem 
> was
> that when I installed a sprinkler system in 1982, the water attracted the
> attention of the neighbor's redwood tree, and its roots eventually
> penetrated the hard clay and blocked the "sewer line".

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