…..DOESN’T MEAN THEY KNOW ABOUT MOVING WATER.

Some folks in Newton, Massachusetts are wondering today what it takes to become a city water department worker.  The entrance exam seems to have been simplified.

Last Thursday morning they woke up to find standing water covering their street and spilling over into their yards.  It turns out that the water department has disconnected some storm drains while they work on a neighborhood expansion.  With nowhere to run off, the heavy rains from the night before just sat there, flooding the block.

Phone calls to the water dept. brought two of their ace workers out to the scene and the immediately began poking around in the water with long probes until they found what they were looking for, another water hole.  After removing this handy manhole cover the flood waters started draining rapidly …. into the sanitary sewer lines.  Within seconds, water backwashed into at least four homes.  We’ll let one of the residents, Jessica Peters, describe what happened next:

(One of my neighbors came) running outside with his hands up screaming, “What are you guys doing?  I’ve got sewage coming out of my toilet!”

I went downstairs and sure enough I had two inches of brown, murky, poopy water flowing through my basement.

Irate homeowner questioning the
waterworkers’ parentage.
(photo by John Kett) 

While the waterworkers admitted that it was their fault, the City is denying responsibilty and is resisting repayment for the thousands of dollars that the homeowners had to spend to get the “brown, murky, poopy water” removed from their homes.

The Newton Tab has the complete STORY.

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