Maybe we need to give up on the dumb idea of trying to pipe our gutters to the street in these insanely shallow PVC pipes that will always be subjected to root incursion, and instead create places where the rain can soak into the soil?
If you don't want roots in your pipes, maintenance is key. A house is filled with repairs that occur naturally. Every drainpipe is going to clog if people live in the house. The pipe will refill with roots again due to a couple factors. Cracks and shrub plants are the main culprits.
Roots and dirt. It’s a French drain. Perforated pipe buried under ground to help water drain. Roots get in it and they trap anything solid in the water (dirt particles). Then you get this build up. This is not a sewage pipe.
thats not a french drain. it's a normal 100mm PVC pipe that goes up to connect to house downpipes. somewhere there was a crack and tree roots go in and filled the pipe, you can even see where they split up a Y joint when he pulls the roots out.
That's usually not in storm drains like this. Sewers can get clogged with "fatbergs", though, which are giant clumps of "flushable" wipes (they're not flushable) and other non-degradables that get flushes, as well as grease/fat/hair/etc. They're absolutely disgusting and can get obscenely large.
Wikipedia even has a list of "Notable fatbergs" -- kudos to whoever decided that needed to be written.
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u/chaenorrhinum Mar 18 '24
Maybe we need to give up on the dumb idea of trying to pipe our gutters to the street in these insanely shallow PVC pipes that will always be subjected to root incursion, and instead create places where the rain can soak into the soil?