A New Jersey woman has her wedding ring back, nine years after she accidentally flushed it down her toilet.

Paula Stanton was sure the diamond-encrusted gold ring was lost forever nearly a decade ago after she noticed it wasn't on her finger while she was cleaning her bathroom.

Luckily, a member of Somers Point's public works department three years ago remembered Stanton mentioning the ring.

Ted Gogol was doing maintenance work last month near a manhole, about 400 feet from Stanton's house, and he said he saw a shiny object sitting in the mud.

The ring turned out to be Stanton's, and after boiling it in peroxide and lemon juice, she is wearing it again.