Wooden Pipes

Tim Boyum of News14 is carving a niche for himself in legislative reporting. He writes a blog Political Connections where Thursday he wrote about this issue of aging infrastructure in NC:

I talked at great length with Patrick Woodie over at the NC Rural Center. This is one of their headline issues and have done plenty of research on the need for water and sewer infrastructure. Anywho, he claims big water main breaks will continue. He also says there's a lot of concrete asbestos piping in this state as well.
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"Not too long ago, Asheville was replacing some pipe in the Woodfin area of Asheville and actually discovered wooden pipe still in the ground," Woodie said. "Hollowed out logs that were used for water pipe."