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Cake day: May 12th, 2026

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  • Utility engineer here.

    Find a new contractor, yours is working with the tools they have have, but a specialist will be able to cut the roots that have infiltrated the pipe, then run a structural epoxy liner through the old one (called CIPP).

    Tree roots look for oxygen, so once you have a solid cured in place pipe, they’ll grow around it instead of trying to intrude.










  • The court said the old laws focused on people whose substance abuse left them unable to manage their lives, while the federal law broadly covered regular drug users regardless of whether they posed a threat to anyone.

     

    “It’s a good day for the Second Amendment when all nine justices can agree to protect gun rights,” Severino said. "The mere fact of illegal drug use, without more, isn’t enough to justify prosecution for gun ownership. Historically, ‘habitual drunkards’ who habitually lost use of their reason could have their rights restricted, but not just regular drinkers — even including Founding Fathers like John Adams, who drank ‘a tankard of hard cider’ with breakfast, or James Madison, who ‘consumed a pint of whisky daily.’

    Seems like an incredibly reasonable take.









  • The water is circulating between the reflecting pool and the Tidal Basin. It was part of the 2009 upgrade to use that instead of using tap water.

    They don’t typically circulate anything back to the tidal basin, the reflecting pool’s circulation system from the 2009 upgrades is a closed loop that filters the water and sends it back to the pool.

    They have an option to top off the pool from the tidal basin to combat leaks/evaporative loss, but they don’t typically use that option during this time of the year (because the tidal basin is full of algae), and as far as I know they never use that method to completely refill it.

    When it’s filled from empty, it’s treated water from DC Water.