Or if you're a willow tree you make a leaky pipe.
Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes
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#14Sidetracked by the nominative determinism in the article (researcher André Poirier's surname means "pear tree").
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#15This is not news. Having to rebore pipes due to tree roots has been around for decades
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#16This is not news. Having to rebore pipes due to tree roots has been around for decades
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rebore#English
They mean clearing tree roots out of the pipes, and patching them.
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#17This is not news. Having to rebore pipes due to tree roots has been around for decades
Heh. Yesterday, we had a plumber over who told us we have to rebore our sewage pipes because roots got in. It is an old house with cast iron pipes and they still got in.
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#18This is not news. Having to rebore pipes due to tree roots has been around for decades
Heh. Yesterday, we had a plumber over who told us we have to rebore our sewage pipes because roots got in. It is an old house with cast iron pipes and they still got in.
Cast Iron’s worse than plastic because they always leak a tiny bit and that means that the roots can “smell” the water and go for it.
Plastic either is impervious or completely fucked.
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Heh. Yesterday, we had a plumber over who told us we have to rebore our sewage pipes because roots got in. It is an old house with cast iron pipes and they still got in.
Cast Iron’s worse than plastic because they always leak a tiny bit and that means that the roots can “smell” the water and go for it. Plastic either is impervious or completely fucked.
I get tree root intrusion where my newish plastic sewer main joins the street sewer.