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A round manhole and its cover. A manhole cover is a removable plate forming the lid over the opening of a manhole, an opening large enough for a person to pass through that is used as an access point for an underground vault or pipe. It is designed to prevent anyone or anything from falling in, and to keep out unauthorized persons and material.
[2] [7] [14] Manhole covers shot up into the sky and came crashing down with great destructive force. [14] [15] [16] One manhole cover crashed completely through the ceiling and floor of a third-floor apartment on Second Street, and another narrowly missed a child when it landed in a house at the corner of 9th and Hill streets. [15]
The manhole cover business has turned over the years, from the sort of ornate covers that a business like Berry’s Foundry might have crafted to drabber covers that dot Sacramento’s streets today.
Storm drain grate on a street in Warsaw, Poland Storm drain with its pipe visible beneath it due to construction work. A storm drain, storm sewer (United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada), highway drain, [1] surface water drain/sewer (United Kingdom), or stormwater drain (Australia and New Zealand) is infrastructure designed to drain excess rain and ground water from impervious surfaces such as paved ...
In the video, shot in the city of Shangluo in Shaanxi Province on August 1, a couple of manhole covers bounced up and down repeatedly on a road, while vehicles drove past next to it. According to ...
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Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... "Photos of NYC Manhole Covers, March, 2013. "NYC DEP Weekly Pipeline", August 3, 2010.
Manhole covers in Helsinki, Finland. Manhole closings are protected by a grating or manhole cover, a flat plug designed to prevent accidental or unauthorized access to the manhole. These covers are traditionally made of metal, [2] but may be constructed from precast concrete, glass reinforced plastic or other composite materials (especially ...