Landfill workers dig through trash to find woman s lost wallet, wedding ring
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May 4 (UPI) Sanitation workers in New Jersey spent an hour and a half digging through the contents of a garbage truck to retrieve a wallet and wedding ring accidentally thrown away by a woman s 10-year-old son.
Ruth Watson of Vineland said she had placed her wedding ring, wallet and some other items into a Dollar General bag while cleaning up around the house, and her 10-year-old son had confused the bag for trash and placed it out next to the curb.
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Watson said she didn t realize what had happened until after the trash had been collected.
“I immediately called the trash company,” Watson-Utley said.
Word quickly spread to crews from the Atlantic County Utilities Authority.
“I was like, ‘Alright. We got to go to the dump. Dump it,’” Jovani Quiles, a member of the Atlantic County Utilities Authority, told NBC10.
For an hour and a half, Quiles, Ramon Nazario, Paul Deola and Alfredo Perez dug through about ten tons of trash at a New Jersey landfill. Finally, they found Watson-Utley’s precious rings.
“It was very overwhelming and at the end, I was happy because I did a good deed for somebody that was looking for something valuable,” Quiles said.
Week of raw sewage on Ventnor streets: Leak finally plugged
A temporary bypass pipeline installed to stop the sewer main leak on Wellington Avenue in Ventnor City (Atlantic County Utilities Authority)
Progress continues on repairs to a sewer pipe that sent raw sewage onto the streets of Ventnor City on Sunday.
Installation of a bypass connection is expected to be complete by late Friday, according to the Atlantic County Utilities Authority. Once activated, it will stop the flow of sewage onto the street. Additional work will continue for as many as four weeks.
“We’re focused on getting this thing solved as quickly as possible. The patch that had to be installed on a live force main came from Texas. They have to be specially fitted and designed and fabricated to fit this kind of pipe at this location,” utility spokesman Rick Dovey told New Jersey 101.5.
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Repairs in progress after sewer main break spilled millions of gallons of raw sewage into street of N.J. town
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Posted Feb 26, 2021
A truck cleans up Dudley Avenue in Ventnor on Thursday, days after a sewer line break spilled millions of gallons in to the streets in the Atlantic County city.Atlantic County Utilities Authority
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With three of the six locations near the Wellington Avenue break still showing elevated levels of bacteria, the shellfish harvesting ban in the Lakes Bay area put into place by the state Department of Environmental Protection remains in place, the Atlantic County Utilities Authority said.