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Municipal water lines in cold climates - history of technology?
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[QUOTE="Stephen Tashi, post: 6227859, member: 186655"] [B]TL;DR Summary:[/B] The contemporary solution to keeping water lines from freezing is to bury them. In cold climates this implies deep trenches. Was that the solution when digging had to be done by hand? In the USA, the usual solution to keeping water lines from freezing is to bury them. In cold climates this implies digging deep trenches. (On another forum, a person from Minnesota said water lines are typically buried 7 ft deep.) In the days before modern excavating equipment, were alternative technolgies used? [/QUOTE]
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