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SPRINGFIELD, Vt. (WCAX) A Springfield man has spent the last three weeks in a motel room because his home was flooded with sewage, making it uninhabitable.
The house is on Chester Road right across from Springfield Health and Rehab. The town says the nursing home has been flushing adult diapers and cleaning rags for over 30 years in violation of a town ordinance. And that sent sewage pouring into Russell Grochowik's home.
"I wouldn't want to wish this on my worst enemy," Grochowik said.
Grochowik has proudly called the house home for the past 59 years. Now, he can hardly bear to walk inside.
"I came down my stairs at 9 a.m. I heard like a waterfall of water running. I looked around the corner and the bathtub was full of sewage and the toilet," he said.
Grochowik says at first glance, the damage doesn't look too bad, but that's because the sewage seeped through the kitchen tiles and bathroom floorboards into the cellar below. And he says a lot of it ran into the heating vents, which caused so much pressure in the duct work, that one attachment ripped right off the ceiling.
"It was running out just like a tidal wave," he said.
The sewage pipeline for the nursing home across the street is connected to Grochowik's home by a manhole. In the manhole is a mesh basket intended to catch diapers and rags before they get into the town's pipeline.
"They're supposed to come down daily and check it. The town tells them to. They don't do it," Grochowik said.
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