--It's worse than you think. This article left out some details that were in the original. The legal easement was on Watson's property. When he told the city it needed repair, they refused to check out the problem. There was a clog in the sewer pipe, that caused some type of problem that was noticible to Watson. In other words, it flooded his property with raw sewage.--
None of that is in the news accounts published at the time.
Was Mr. Rosemann lying, or was Mr. Suprynowicz lying when he attributed that statement to him?