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The picture on the first page of this article shows the town digging equipment as it began the work Friday morning 7:30AM opening the ground between the sidewalk and the concrete street edge. A small tree was situated right over the sewer line and was removed only to discover that it was in fact growing from a massive root system of a large tree that must have at one time been cut down. The buried stump was almost a foot and a half across. This process of opening the ground is actually much faster then it seems when you stand watching the skilled machine operator cut his way down. During the process a series of experienced workers came and went to aid in the process. As work continued Don Nyman came to recover the lost equipment he had down that line and it was soon obvious that that piece of equipment was

unlikely to ever be seen again. People standing around talking while a hole is being dug often have some clear understanding of the what is occurring Like most people, I am curious about the many streets that have to be dug up each year to repair sewer lines and according to one source most of Tisdale’s underground sewer system consists of pipe intended for an African place and was purchased at a real bargain price. However, the material was not suited to Tisdale’s soil conditions and over the years has been crumbling. The process of inserting liners (mention in Ensign earlier) has been undertaken to repair many lines but some including the line up main street will eventually have to be dug up and replaced. The digging soon reached the line some nine feet down.