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Sewage nightmare in Brooklyn
Tabletalk
|November 19, 2025
When 83-year-old Joan Wessels opened her back door on Sunday May 25, she walked into what she describes as "a nightmare no human being should ever go through".
Raw sewage - knee deep in some parts - had surged across her sloping back garden in Alwin Street, Brooklyn, filling her swimming pool and covering the western side of the yard in human faeces.
This story is from the November 19, 2025 edition of Tabletalk.
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