Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Same thing in Texas, when I lived in West University, an enclosed suburb of Houston, the sewers were all or had been yellow pine buried twelve or so feet down. The caliche clay worked just fine as a pipe after a hundred years, but with new development as the older bungalow's were match-sticked into mansions so we were accessed for new sewer pipes. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com>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. > > -- > // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com > // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: > http://rfman.wordpress.com > // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory at gmail.com