Manhole covers are large cast-iron discs used to cover openings to the city’s gas, electrical, water and sewer lines. On average, they are about 3 feet in diameter and weigh about 300 pounds.

More than 1,000 of the heavy cast iron lids disappear from Chicago streets ... it is-seemingly has spilled over to Gary, where 60 sewer covers have been reported stolen over the summer.

Two wall-bound cast iron "sewer covers" have the proportions and mass of the genuine article, but Lazzarini has subjected each one to the sort of ripply distortions that mid-20th century Hollywood ...

Three weeks ago 12-year-old Shamira Fingers from South Philadelphia was walking down a city street near her home when she suddenly fell into an open sewer ... of cast iron manhole covers in ...

Cape Town - A calf fell to its death in a George Municipality main supply sewer line following the vandalism and theft of cast iron covers and frames. The municipality said the line where the calf ...