Re: Tree causing subsidence

In message <_X_Jh.1604$Kk5.1379@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ian henden <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Your tree is drawing several tens (hundreds?) of gallons of water from the
soil,

An interesting idea, but over what time period? Minutes, hours, days or how long?


has been doing so consistantly for well over ten years, and there is
an overall "balance" in the moisture content of the soil.

Remove the tree, and what is going to happen to all that water?

:o)



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Bill
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