Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard Man wrote: >http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/SewerPipeProblems09/ > >We knew our sewer pipe has problems for a number of years, but finally >the guy dug it up and... found that the City Tree basically cracked >the pipe (especially see pics 3 and 4). Tree roots everywhere from >that point on. The whole week long saga resulted in two huge holes >being dug and a 25 foot pipe replaced. It's sort of neat as they just >ran the new pipe through the old one, breaking the old one as the new >one went in. > >It's un-budgeted expense, of course, and much more expensive than >Marty Groves is causing us. Sigh. You don't want to know about the 100' of 80-year-old iron irrigation pipe we replaced last spring. Trenching by yours truly. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com