*********** and belligerent

On Friday 17 May municipal workers wanted access to my garden to look for a manhole. I told them that there was none and I have lived here for 43 years. Then they insisted that there was a sewerage pipe which was supposedly blocked. I told them that sewerage does not run uphill. On Monday 20 May it rained but early Tuesday morning they were here with a subcontractor insisting that his six men dig for the "blocked pipe". After 5 hours of digging, cutting off major roots of my 40 year old yellow wood tree and creating a hole of about 2m x 1m x 1m they found a pipe which was capped 1 m into my property (installed but unused pipe). This caused them to look for the problem elsewhere. They found it downhill from me it and cleared the blockage in a very short time.