When you just flush 'em down the drain, there's gonna be some financial pain

I've been in the news biz for nigh on 40 years and never thought I'd be leading the paper with a sewerage story two days in a row.
But, alas, here I am!
I felt Rochester's pain on Friday when I read about how what are incorrectly called "flushable" wipes wreak havoc on a sewer system. In a release from the city, DPW officials pleaded with residents who are on city sewer to not flush the woven fiber wipes down the toilet.
While advertising on the package often says they're flushable, what they aren't is "sewerageable (that's a brand new word)."
I learned the hard way about 20 years ago when a household member brought some home and was wont to flush them down the toilet without a care.
Now my toilet didn't mind flushing them, but my outflow pipe up to my leach field wasn't as forgiving.
Inevitably, one morning the outflow pipe malfunctioned, sounding an alarm in the cellar that resembled what you'd hear during a full-blown prison riot.
After I shut off the alarm I noticed that all the water service in the house shut down.
I immediately call my sewer guy who came out with his partner and within minutes found the culprit and called me out to take a looksee: a "flushable" wipe in the flywheel of the motor that pushes the brown water to the leach field in my back yard.
The cost? Somewhere around $300, a good chunk of change in 2005.
So I had him drop the "flushable" wipe into a glass jar to see how long it would take for it to disintegrate as language on the package indicated it would.
I kept that glass bottle for a couple of weeks; the wipe never disintegrated.
I guess I should've called the AG's consumer office, but I really just wanted the $300 back.
So I called the manufacturer and told him the "flushable" wipe never did break down and told him I should be compensated.
I had a $300 check in my PO box in less than a week.
Now, 20 years later, I can hardly believe they're still selling these things.
They may be "flushable," but once they get into a sewer system they wreak havoc, costing millions of dollars of taxpayer money to keep municipal sewer systems free of clogs.
Just throw 'em away, It will save a lot lot of taxpayers a lot of money.
More importantly, I hope that's my last sewerage story for a good, long time.