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		bombcar 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinkin... 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.

2OEH8eoCRo0 4 months ago [–]

I get tree root intrusion where my newish plastic sewer main joins the street sewer.

bombcar 4 months ago | [–]

Yeah joints are always the problem.

Which is why you want the joints to be someone else’s problem.

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