Underground asset failures also produce sound- most of it outside the frequency range of human hearing. Utilizing a special camera outfitted with an array of microphones allows UTGIS to see the sounds ...

Some people strapped for cash have found a quick fix: stealing manhole covers. Thieves sell the heavy lids to scrap metal dealers for prices that continue to rise. Manhole cover theft has been a huge ...

TODAY'S FOCUS: Watch 'Em reported this week that water was bubbling from a manhole cover at Houston and Memorial. Tuesday, we reported that a Public Works and Engineering Department spokesman said the ...

A Mr. Manhole cutter extractor, attached to a Caterpillar 279C compact track loader equipped with a Cat A26B high-flow auger drive unit, cuts through pavement in Hardinsburg, KY. It is well known that ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The entire subway system was hit with numerous problems Thursday evening, from power outages and a manhole fire to doors that opened onto the tracks. The problems were expected ...

problem isn’t funny, McGuff. "So like I was saying ... aaagh!" OK, so it’s a little funny, in a Looney Tunes sort of way. You have to admit, as problems go, this is a strange one. Hundreds of holes ...

BOGOTA, Colombia -- For years, people in Colombia's capital stood by as thieves hauled off manhole covers to sell as scrap. Drivers simply tried to swerve around the gaping holes where the 110-pound, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The top of a downtown storm drain is secure now, but that was not always the case. A viewer sent us a picture this week of a car tire stuck in the hole after the top came up. It ...

Hundreds of New York City manholes have started smoking or have caught fire since Saturday — marking the busiest stretch of manhole problems for Con Edison in over a year, the agency said. The agency ...

This year alone, 23 people have died in Karachi by falling into manholes and open sewers, of whom eight were children.

But as per the pattern of governance in Karachi, the mere announcement of fund allocation is never a holistic answer to most civic problems. Problem-solving in this financial hub has to go through ...