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As the OP, I'll just add that the original question was prompted by the fact that we have an easement under our neighbor's yard to access the water main. The two lots used to be one large corner lot. The former owners of the large corner lot divided it into two smaller ones, back in the 1940s...

I found two companies who have the equipment to do this sort of underground location. $400 ballpark. Thanks for all the help. Nothing needs replacing/repairing at this time, BTW, this is for an easement agreement.

Thanks. I'm happy to hear this is do-able. Now, let's hope for my sake that it's also affordable. BTW, does your "easily amused" have anything to do with "tins of tuna" and "egg-a-muffins"?

Thanks for the lead. I will give them a call.

No, fibbing won't work, because I'm the one that actually needs to know this so I can enter into a legal agreement with my neighbor. The agreement will have to state very precisely where the water line runs --it runs from the street, under my neighbor's property, over to my yard. We want to...

For legal purposes, I need to know, without digging, whether my water service line runs in a straight line from the curb or takes some turns underground to avoid obstacles. If it zigs and zags I need to know where that happens and the length and position of each run of pipe, so it can be...

Thanks, the information is very helpful.

25' feet should be long enough to save the tree. 12 feet on either side of the tree trunk should be enough to protect its roots. Roughly, by how much does the need to use a boring tool typically increase the homeowner's total cost of the repair? By $1000? By $2000?

Rerouting is not likely to be possible here -- sewer line to the right, dogwood directly above, and to the left, another tree, an ancient towering oak tree. Besides, the current or future neighbors may be able to prevent me from claiming new ground for an alternate route, even though I may...

Thanks for that video link. It explains very clearly how the process bursts the original pipe. But what sort of pipe replaces the original rigid pipe in a residential domestic / potable water situation? Let's say you have a pit dug into the street and anotherr pit up at the house...

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure what you meant by "air missile" in this context. Is that the borer bit?

I suppose the tick-marks are in 16ths or 8ths for the SAE and in mm for the metric.

We found out that the curb stop for our domestic water is on an adjacent street and the Customer Service Line passes under our neighbor's lawn. The former owners of that property planted a tree (something like a dogwood) directly above the line. If something should happen requiring the line to...