PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A Portsmouth homeowner says he has spent much of his free time working in his yard after a 3.1 million-gallon sewage spill damaged his property, while he waits for the Hampton Roads Sanitation District to restore his lawn.
Noel McBride has lived on Douglas Avenue for four years.
Before a sewage main break spilled 3.1 million gallons of raw sewage on Aug. 4, McBride said he never had large amounts of water building up in his yard without draining…