{"id":5303,"date":"2013-11-13T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T12:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2013-11-13T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T12:37:12","slug":"boring-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/boring-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"boring technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/A012674-sewage-gas-pipe.jpg\"><br \/>\nI always call <a href=\"http:\/\/va811.com\/\">Miss Utility<\/a> before I dig. Calling Sister Utility is the law. I don&#8217;t know anyone who has ever been arrested, but the State, the County, the City, they all make pretty clear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Failure to notify Miss Utility before you dig could make you liable for the cost of any repairs should you damage a utility service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the picture above  a concrete sanitary sewer main runs right to left, downhill, beneath Chesapeake Street in Charlottesville Virginia, headed for the sewage plant.<br \/>\nAlso pictured, a half inch diameter, high pressure gas line running from seven o&#8217;clock to one o&#8217;clock, overtop the sanitary sewer.<br \/>\nAlso pictured, the damage that resulted when the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Directional_boring\">HDD<\/a> (horizontal directional drilling) operator inadvertently steered the drilling rig through the sewer.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits of drilling, no trench, less erosion, it is minimally invasive street surgery. The problem, no laparoscope.<\/p>\n<p>Our City is actively pursuing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infiltration\/Inflow\">inflow and infiltration<\/a> of rainwater into the sanitary sewer. They cruise pipes with video cameras, find and fix damaged pipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always call Miss Utility before I dig. Calling Sister Utility is the law. I don&#8217;t know anyone who has ever been arrested, but the State, the County, the City, they all make pretty clear: Failure to notify Miss Utility before you dig could make you liable for the cost of any repairs should you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/boring-technology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;boring technology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damage","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5306,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/5306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}