Stories about wooden water lines come up pretty regularly. In every instance I've read about, they're not in use; they're just still buried, alongside the iron

Stories about wooden water lines come up pretty regularly. In every instance I've read about, they're not in use; they're just still buried, alongside the iron pipes that replaced them long, long ago. That makes sense to me; they would probably lay new iron pipes along the same route, burying them as they went, and only disconnect the wood pipes after the iron pipes were in place. No sense removing the wood as they went.