DPW worker helps woman find lost diamond in recycling bin [Video]

A Watertown resident had lost the center diamond of a family heirloom ring. She had retraced her steps and realized the only place she hadn’t looked was in a sidewalk recycling compactor on Mt. Auburn Street.”You could definitely tell that she was panicked,” said Laura Murray, who fields the Watertown 311 calls, recalling the first frantic phone messages which were left on Friday. “My understanding is, she put her hand in to drop stuff off in the bin, bumped the top and the diamond got popped off,” said Matt Bacon, the city’s recycling chief.”I called her Monday, and around 3 o’clock, we met up here . We just had gloves and trash bags so we wouldn’t get anything on the sidewalk, and just started fishing through it.”After 15 minutes, Bacon was able to find the diamond deep inside the recycling compactor.”It was pretty deep in there. I did throw out …