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Valuable wedding ring found in sewer line

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TIGARD, Ore., April 8 (UPI) -- Officials and utility workers in Tigard, Ore., said they are trying to find the owner of a valuable wedding ring found in a sewer line.

City officials said they are keeping specific details of the custom wedding ring under wraps to prevent false claimants from having too much information about the item, KGW-TV, Portland, reported.

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They said no one who has called about the ring has yet provided enough details about the piece of jewelry or where it was lost.

Ed Leniger, a senior Tigard Public Works employee, said he discovered a ring covered with "lots of diamonds" while clearing a sewer line with a powerful vacuum.

"(The owner) ought to be able to tell us what it looked like. It had to come through a drain either off the sink or from a toilet," Leniger said.

He said finding the owner of the ring, rather than selling it for the estimated thousands it is worth, "was a moral decision."

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