{"id":5867,"date":"2010-03-01T09:41:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2010-03-01T09:41:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:41:30","slug":"trees_the_gift_down_below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/03\/trees_the_gift_down_below.html","title":{"rendered":"Trees: The Gift Down Below"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/02\/25\/2010-02-25_snowcovered_tree_branch_snaps_kills_man_walking_in_central_park.html\">trees kill<\/a> but they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/02\/28\/2010-02-28_mayors_plant_plan_leaves_em_up_a_tree.html\">slowly wreak havoc on our infrastructure as well<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The devastation tree roots can have on sewer pipes is another problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The older sewer connections were put together with cement, and the tree roots penetrate the connections. It happens frequently,&#8221; said John Figliolia, president of the New York Association of Water and Sewer Excavators. &#8220;You&#8217;re talking thousands and thousands of dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No way would I want a tree planted in front of my property,&#8221; said Steven Kogel of Harris Watermain and Sewer Contractors in East New York, Brooklyn. &#8220;As a master plumber, I know what a tree can do to the sewer and the sidewalk. It&#8217;s a mess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And when there&#8217;s a tree in front of a house and the sewer pipes have to be changed, the contractor must take out a Parks Department permit and hire an arborist who will oversee the excavation and installation of the sewer, said Kogel. &#8220;The job, which would take two days, takes twice as long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city is responsible for any trip-and-fall cases involving tree roots in front of a three-family home or smaller. The city Law Department said it had to pay out $39 million in judgments and settlements last year for cases involving sidewalk defects.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do trees kill but they slowly wreak havoc on our infrastructure as well: The devastation tree roots can have on sewer pipes is another problem. &#8220;The older sewer connections were put together with cement, and the tree roots penetrate the connections. It happens frequently,&#8221; said John Figliolia, president of the New York Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5868,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions\/5868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}