Water flowing from a 100-year-old tree in San Antonio:

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Without looking at all, my first guess is that a root pierced a water pipe.

water bill hasn't gone up. read the article FTW.

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: rh71

Pope said her insurance agent dabbed drops on a spider bite that went away after the application on the welt.

oh god no...

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Profit!

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: LoKe
I'm thinkin' someone ELSE has a high water bill. =D

Originally posted by: JohnCU
water bill hasn't gone up. read the article FTW.

If a root pierces a pipe, their water bill would be exactly the same. The meter is on the side of the house, or in the house, not at the curb. Unless that tree is growing in the living room (which it doesn't appear to be) then they would not be billed for the warter coming from the tree because the line was pierced before the meter. Most water systems in most towns have a > 10% transmission loss. That means about 10% of water is lost between the pumping station and meters.

Just because it is in a news article doesn't make it correct.

 

[skull]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: Evadman
Without looking at all, my first guess is that a root pierced a water pipe.

water bill hasn't gone up. read the article FTW.

Unless they have a water spicket in the middle of there yard the pipe that it pierced wouldn't be hooked to the water meter.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: LoKe
I'm thinkin' someone ELSE has a high water bill. =D

Originally posted by: JohnCU
water bill hasn't gone up. read the article FTW.

If a root pierces a pipe, their water bill would be exactly the same. The meter is on the side of the house, or in the house, not at the curb. Unless that tree is growing in the living room (which it doesn't appear to be) then they would not be billed for the warter coming from the tree because the line was pierced before the meter. Most water systems in most towns have a > 10% transmission loss. That means about 10% of water is lost between the pumping station and meters.

Just because it is in a news article doesn't make it correct.

My water meter is out at the street on the curb. If a tree in my front yard hit a line, I'd be paying for it.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
My water meter is out at the street on the curb. If a tree in my front yard hit a line, I'd be paying for it.

You have a wierd layout. I have family in the charlston area, and theirs is on the back of their house. I have never seen one out by the curb, only shutoff valves.

Cudos to you.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: JohnCU
My water meter is out at the street on the curb. If a tree in my front yard hit a line, I'd be paying for it.

You have a wierd layout. I have family in the charlston area, and theirs is on the back of their house. I have never seen one out by the curb, only shutoff valves.

Cudos to you.

We have the shutoff valve out there too, but the meter is there because they come by, pick up the cover and check it and I've checked it too when I thought they were charging me wrong. Oh well, every town is different.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
We have the shutoff valve out there too, but the meter is there because they come by, pick up the cover and check it and I've checked it too when I thought they were charging me wrong. Oh well, every town is different.

Wow, I figured that it was in the ground or something, it sounds like yours is sticking up. That would be run over in less than a week around here, and we would have huge fountans of water all over the place.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: JohnCU
We have the shutoff valve out there too, but the meter is there because they come by, pick up the cover and check it and I've checked it too when I thought they were charging me wrong. Oh well, every town is different.

Wow, I figured that it was in the ground or something, it sounds like yours is sticking up. That would be run over in less than a week around here, and we would have huge fountans of water all over the place.

It's in the ground about 1' from the street. It's like in it's own pocket with a hefty iron covering (or some other metal). The pocket is about 1.5' deep and 1.5' long, maybe 1' wide. I thought this is how everybody had it. learn something new everyday.

 

[jread]

I'm thinking either the water pipe or one of the roots when down into the underground aquifer.

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Without looking at all, my first guess is that a root pierced a water pipe.

Or septic system.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: JohnCU
We have the shutoff valve out there too, but the meter is there because they come by, pick up the cover and check it and I've checked it too when I thought they were charging me wrong. Oh well, every town is different.

Wow, I figured that it was in the ground or something, it sounds like yours is sticking up. That would be run over in less than a week around here, and we would have huge fountans of water all over the place.

It's in the ground about 1' from the street. It's like in it's own pocket with a hefty iron covering (or some other metal). The pocket is about 1.5' deep and 1.5' long, maybe 1' wide. I thought this is how everybody had it. learn something new everyday.

The water meter on my house is also outside and in the ground. It's about 10' from the curb in the middle of the front yard.

 

[SagaLore]

When I lived in Oregon as a youngin' - there was a treet in our backyard that I would always climb. There was 1 young branch that had broken off and was leaking "sap". It near healed. It just continued leaking. But it wasn't really sap, more like water.

I bet that's what is happening here. The tree is pulling moisture from the ground through deep roots, and some bug chewed away under the bark or maybe it was an old nail hole, and it just started leaking.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Without looking at all, my first guess is that a root pierced a water pipe.

San Antonio Water System workers turned off the water to his house at the street Wednesday morning, and when they did, the flow from the tree ceased, he tells them.

/me dances

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