Ceres, a town of about 45,000, lies at the center of California’s rich and fertile Great Central Valley. But as sewer network operators everywhere know, fertile ground can have a downside: root growth in sewer lines.For the past decade, Ceres has been managing root control in-house. The initial impetus for getting into root control came from just one subdivision, Morrow Village. “It was built in 1957, and all the utilities and easements were put in backyards,” explains Wastewater Systems Supervisor Terry Turner. “So, it’s the only place in our network where we have to enter private property to do maintenance.
