This is a rarity. I've been here 20 years and this is the second that I know of.

Shawn Nesgis, wastewater collection supervisor with the Union, Calif. Sanitation District, whose crew found an heirloom diamond and sapphire ring to an area family whose 3-year-old son flushed it down the toilet in October. The ring had traveled 1/3 of a mile from the family's house.