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Article: Cities learn value of chemical root control.
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- Underground Construction
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Homeowners with trees on their property know all about tree roots and sewer lines. Roots enter and grow inside their sewer laterals, causing backups and requiring periodic clean out by specialists, usually using rotating cutting tools to slice through root blockages.
Roots pose serious problems in municipal sewer systems, too. Tree roots growing in mains restrict or block flow and can cause serious structural damage to pipe comprising sanitary and storm sewer collection systems.
"Root intrusion into sewers probably is the most destructive single problem in maintaining wastewater collection systems," says Michael Hogan, citing a study published by the ...