All access lines that connect Sea Village homes to the city sewer trunk lines are the responsibility of individual homeowners. Care and maintenance of those lines, which generally run under each owner’s driveway, must be provided by the homeowner.

Sewer access lines are subject to cracks and leaks initiated by ground settling, shifting, expansion, and mild and severe earthquake damage. They are also subject to failure as a result of poor workmanship in original construction. All of these factors can precipitate failures long after the original event. It is also well known that tree roots are drawn to the water source created by leaks in the sewer access lines, and can then force their way into and eventually clog the sewer line. The existence of roots in sewer lines may not prove that common area trees were the originating cause of sewer line damage.

Sea Village sewer lines are now thirty years old and those lines have a finite lifetime and their value is consumed over that lifetime.

The Board, acting in good faith on what it believes to be fair to both individual homeowners and the association, resolves as follows:

1. The Board, Committees, and Owners shall be alert to conditions where irrigation patterns might encourage root grown near sewer access lines.

2. Owners are responsible for informing the association that their sewer access line damage may have resulted from, or abetted by, the roots of trees planted in the common area.

3. Owners have the responsibility to repair or replace sewer access lines as may be necessary.

4. Owners may petition the association to share in a portion of the cost of repair or replacement of a sewer line if there are extenuating circumstances where it is clear that the association contributed to the line failure. These cases would be evaluated on a case-bt-case basis within the considerations described above.