A City-Owned Tree Is Crushing His Sewer Line. Now He Has To Pay Thousands

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A homeowner was slapped with a hefty fee from the city to dig up a tree root crushing his sewer line.
He doesn’t want to pay for the repairs and neither does the city.
“The tree has been there longer than I have,” said Ryan Aplanalp who lives in Midtown.
A 100-year-old tree is causing a stinky situation by digging deep roots under Aplanalp’s property.
“It’s growing into the pipe basically and causing the damage,” he said. &ldqu