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Old 26th December 2007, 03:50 PM   #6 (permalink)
olyman
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Default Re: Tree roots and pipes by SE Water Australia

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Originally Posted by mdvaden View Post
In our cities, the greater number of sewer lines are not the fewer larger municipal ones, but the smaller ones routed from residences toward the street area. And most of those are not very deep.

Even if they are "air-tight" glued at the seams, they do get crushed or displaced to the end of breaking sometimes.
i can attest to this--as i have a LARGE norway maple in my front yard--and the old hub clay sewer lines are out there to the street---guess what--the tree roots like to plug it---not so much in a moist year--but dry!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cleaned it out three times last year!!!!!!!!! but im not cutting the tree down--as direct sunlight stays off my house till 3 in the afternoon--------
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