Gardening & Landscaping
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Tree roots and underground utilities
We'd like to plant a tree to the L of our driveway but that's where the gas line is. We know trees can move sidewalks and driveways, but will it bust a gas line or grow around it? TIA.
Re: Tree roots and underground utilities
Our little Irish rose came to us on March 5, 2010
Don't drink the water.
Disclaimer: I am not an MD. Please don't PM me with pregnancy-related questions. Ask your doctor.
Not to state the obvious, but make sure you don't hit the gas line when you're planting the tree.
Also, utility companies reserve the right to basically destroy anything around an area if they need to work there, so if they ever need to work on the line through that area, they will probably kill your tree and leave you with the mess from it to clean up.
I don't know where you live, but here, you are extremely unlikely to hit underground utilities unless you are digging with machinery. Gas line minimum depth would be tough to reach without a backhoe. And as Dr. L said, roots might be attracted to water, but they aren't attracted to natural gas.
As the pp pointed out, don't choose a valuable tree for an easement.