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| Please see the pictures attached. We replaced our sewer line last month (not by choice). Some of our lawn was tore up and some is under packed dirt. What do I do now?
Is it too late to seed new grass? I'm in Atlanta.
Thanks! http://s1257.photobucket.com/albums/ii513/thebigad/ |
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Sun, Jun 10, 12 at 17:15
| How much of the lawn did they tear up? Wasn't it only a strip about 6 inched wide??? Seems to me a 4-inch sewer line would not need to be dug out 10 feet across. Unless what we're looking at is where they spread the "left over" soil after they filled the trench and leveled it. If that is what happened, you have a permanent problem. All the soil that came out of the trench needs to go back into the trench. Otherwise in 3 years, after all the soil has settled, you are going to have a new trench where the sewer line is. There is no left over soil after digging a hole in a lawn. It all has to go back into the hole. As for what to do now, what kind of grass do you have? Yes, it is too late to seed but not too late to put sod down. You can do that any day of the year. You might try raking the soil off of the buried grass. Otherwise it is certainly smothered. Rake it toward the sewer line trench and see if you can mound that trench line up. I promise it will settle back down as time goes on. |
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