Multiple roads in Greenville County will be experiencing rolling roadblocks as part of a manhole cover inspection process. Manhole covers are an often overlooked key component of our infrastructure.

And the city missed an opportunity with $28.3 million in ARPA funding from the federal government to do something with manhole covers that drive the public crazy each and every year. As we move into a ...

While the odds of getting struck by an exploding manhole cover are low, they’re not zero. According to the 2021 New York City Mayor Management Report, the New York Fire Department responded to ...

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The covers weigh about 200 pounds and can travel 15 feet in the air. But the newer energy-release manhole models will lift slightly — about 3 to 4 inches — then drop back in place.

Carson said most of the manhole covers in the area remain the former, generic checkered-plated cast-iron lids, which reads “sanitary sewer,” because, in 1990, MSD inherited the bulk of the ...