By Thursday afternoon, workers had put up shoring walls and dug more than 20 feet down into Lopez’s backyard before they located the source: a 12-inch vitrified clay sewer pipe that had settled ...

Vitrified clay pipe prone to root infiltration While the exact age of ... Plant roots will then often try to access the water inside the sewer pipe. “That one little pathway, even if it’s microscopic, ...

Q:My 30-foot ornamental plum tree has sent its roots into the 1890s clay tile sewer line ... you're using the old pipe as a casing, this will necessarily reduce the inside diameter of the pipe ...

The city has filed a $1 million lawsuit over the failure of a sewer line in its southwest ... negligent in recommending the use of a vitrified clay pipe for the project. In its suit, the city ...

The University of Texas at Arlington and the city of Waxahachie are collaborating on robotic inspections of several miles of the city's sewer pipelines ... made of vitrified clay pipe, a blend ...

Q: I live in the San Leandro hills, where there is clay ... pipe is the same inside diameter as the old. If required, it's even possible to increase the size of the pipe. This method of sewer ...

SIOUX CITY -- The Sioux City Council will be asked Monday to approve a more than $3.8 million settlement agreement and release between the city and a California clay pipe manufacturer and supplier.

The work will continue for approximately one month. The commission is removing 12- to 18-inch diameter vitrified clay sewer pipes and replacing them with the same sized polyvinyl chloride (PVC ...