photo credit:
Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent
The gopher in the picture above is doing an impressive job of moving a pretty significantly sized rock out of its tunnel, but did you know that a gopher will normally burrow around a gravel-lined trench - if the gravel is 1-inch in diameter or larger? So if you want to protect your underground irrigation and water supply lines from gopher damage, lay them in gravel. Pebbles smaller than an inch in diameter can more easily be pushed through or to the surface, but you may thwart them with six to eight inches of coarse gravel.
You can also protect buried water lines by enclosing them in some kind of material that acts as a sleeve as long as the outside diameter exceeds 2.9 inches (7.4 cm). Gophers can open their mouths about an inch wide (measuring the distance between their upper and lower incisors). The recommended diameter essentially provides for a flat surface wide enough such that a gopher can't get a bite in edgewise. And soft metals like copper and lead don't really work. Gophers can get through them.
The gravel trench seems simpler but that would depend on your situation.
And here's another amazing little factoid about gophers: Gopher can close their lips behind their four large incisor teeth to keep dirt out of their mouths when using their teeth for digging. That is amazing.
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