On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:25:59 +1000, "Peter Jason"
wrote:

Well the thing is lifting the pavement and its roots are crawling into my
drains and blocking them.

Also it is sucking all the water from the subsoil under the house and cracks
are appearing in the walls.

I want to get rid of it before something catastrophic happens!

If you water the foundation, the subsoil will not dry out and you will
not have a problem. If you trench near your house and install a root
barrier, you will not have a problem. If you replace the porous drain
pipe with correctly installed PVC, you will not have a problem.

If your trespass onto your neighbor's property and kill his tree, you
will have a problem (or so I would hope).

Grow up and take responsibility for these issues instead of sneaking
around breaking laws to avoid dealing with the real issues.

K