Thieves are stealing storm water inlet covers and large, heavy steel plates covering sinkholes in streets to sell to scrapyards for cash, not only leaving holes that pose a safety hazard but posing an ...

These are heavy-duty thefts. As in 80 to 100 pounds a pop. Stormwater sewer grates have been vanishing from streets around south Snohomish County and other parts of the Puget Sound region. In Bothell, ...

Cincinnati city officials says thieves are ripping manhole covers and storm water grates out of the ground to sell for scrap metal. Greater Cincinnati Waterworks and Metropolitan Sewer District ...