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 Anymouse
    
Location: Calgary, AB
Gender: Male
 |  |  |  |  |  | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 1 on 11/14/2004 5:43 PM >
|  | | | It definitely varies by city. Some cities clearly label what the manholes contain ("DRAIN", "SANITARY", "POWER", "TELEPHONE", etc.) - and some only have a couple types. In Calgary, for example - storm drain and sanitary sewers use the same manhole, just labelled "City of Calgary Sewer". Telephone and power use the same manhole, which is significantly larger.
Sometimes if you check the city's own documentation, it will tell you something about the manhole designs. Usually just try popping a few and see if you notice a pattern. I am willing to bet in really old cities that it will be harder, as they will have changed manhole types many many times over the years.
[last edit 11/14/2004 5:43 PM by Anymouse - edited 1 times]
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Louie
   
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<Reply # 2 on 11/14/2004 9:42 PM >
| | | | what kind of manholes are there in your area? where do you live? i usually dont enter by manhole i enter by outfall/infall.
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 3 on 11/15/2004 12:27 AM >
|  | | | Just as a manhole cover disclaimer:
What's printed on the cover isn't necessarily accurate. I've seen steam tunnel manhole with covers labeled "electrical", "sewer", and just about everything else. I've also seen neighboring steam tunnel and storm drain manholes use identical slotted covers, where the only way to tell what was underneath was to open the cover. And Anymouse is right, it definitely varies from city to city.
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Billmac
Location: Scarborough
Gender: Male
well this ought to be different
| | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 4 on 11/15/2004 7:18 PM >
| | | | I've seen some in the Toronto area that are simply labelled "DANGER". Is this just a deterrent, or are they full of poo and monsters?
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Gunslinger
Location: The Wasteland "Peel Region"
Gender: Male
| | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 5 on 11/15/2004 11:07 PM >
| | | | Posted by WMcheesemaster
I've seen some in the Toronto area that are simply labelled "DANGER". Is this just a deterrent, or are they full of poo and monsters?
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They are typically storm drains
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Anymouse
Location: Calgary, AB
Gender: Male
| | | | | | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 6 on 11/16/2004 6:30 AM >
| | | | Posted by WMcheesemaster
I've seen some in the Toronto area that are simply labelled "DANGER". Is this just a deterrent, or are they full of poo and monsters?
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I saw some of those while I was in Ottawa too - thought it was hilarious. Some manholes contain STORM, some contain SANITARY, and it seems these ones contain pure concentrated DANGER. I wonder if it's like that Ghostbusters movie.
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SpongeTom
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<Reply # 7 on 11/19/2004 8:38 PM >
| | | | In in UK and the ones around here just have some numbers and GRADE A or GRADE B
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Mr. Bungle
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<Reply # 8 on 11/20/2004 11:33 PM >
| | | | Posted by Anymouse
I saw some of those while I was in Ottawa too - thought it was hilarious. Some manholes contain STORM, some contain SANITARY, and it seems these ones contain pure concentrated DANGER. I wonder if it's like that Ghostbusters movie.
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In my town (Oakville, near Toronto) they're switching to those DANGER covers. It seems to be only in in places where the cover's been recently replaced, and downtown for some reason.
In my experience the only way to find out what's down these for sure is to pop it. In my area both sanitary and storm sewers are just marked "sewer", so you have to resort to other tactics to find out what it really is. An easy way to find out is to smell it, or one time I used a non-contact thermometer to measure the temperature of the water, but one's that's a little out there...
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aplz
Location: Neo-Berlin (Kitchener)
Gender: Male
When The Detail Lost Its Freedom
| | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 9 on 11/21/2004 6:18 PM >
| | | | I find the best way to tell if its unmarked or whatever, is to shine a flashlight down one of the holes (considering it has two or more) and look down with the other eye. Most sanitary drains are just tiny 6 - 8 inches holes, and you'll be able to tell no problem.
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Bobtheallmighty
Location: Somewhere over london, Ontario
Gender: Male
gotta climb.
| | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 10 on 11/21/2004 7:07 PM >
| | | | Posted by aplz
I find the best way to tell if its unmarked or whatever, is to shine a flashlight down one of the holes (considering it has two or more) and look down with the other eye. Most sanitary drains are just tiny 6 - 8 inches holes, and you'll be able to tell no problem.
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yeah i use that method a lot in mississauga. people give you strange looks when you whip out a mini mag and excitedly run towards a man hole. (I do that a lot)
-bob
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Billmac
Location: Scarborough
Gender: Male
well this ought to be different
| | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 11 on 11/22/2004 8:24 PM >
| | | | I was just out last night looking around for manholes that might be easy to pry. I started following a small creek near my house. It seems there is some sort of drain/sewer that follows the entire length of the creek for several kilometres, passing under it randomly. There is a cover every 100-200 metres, but they are all bolted shut with two steel screws. I shined my light down and found that they are about 5 metres deep. There is also the sound of rushing water in some of them, though the water does not look too deep when i look down.
Would this be worth exploring? I may be able to pry the covers open with some work.
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Bobtheallmighty
Location: Somewhere over london, Ontario
Gender: Male
gotta climb.
| | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 12 on 11/23/2004 3:58 AM >
| | | | i would check it out. everything is worth at least one try.
-bob
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HolyJesusILoveCreed
Member has passed away. Account closed out of respect.
Location: MN
Gender: Male
"So-called Urban Explorer"
| |  | | | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 13 on 11/23/2004 3:33 PM >
| | | | opening a random manhole cover is like opening a present, most of the time you dont know what you will get
well, sometimes you find something cool, sometimes its boring RCP
near where I live you can access utility tunnels which in turn access caves through a manhole cover
I also like rectangular access lids, or hex lids, most of the time those mean there is something cool below
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 14 on 11/23/2004 8:59 PM >
| | | | Posted by aplz
Most sanitary drains are just tiny 6 - 8 inches holes, and you'll be able to tell no problem. |
Some, however, can be a wee (heh) bit larger. and nastier...
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Bobtheallmighty
Location: Somewhere over london, Ontario
Gender: Male
gotta climb.
| | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 15 on 11/23/2004 9:08 PM >
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why is the guy in the picture NOT wearing gloves. is he crazy or something?
-bob
" <Samurai> you know, we aren't as far removed from animals as we'd like to think... i still have bowel movements that border on mystical... i mean almost orgasmic" |
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HolyJesusILoveCreed
Member has passed away. Account closed out of respect.
Location: MN
Gender: Male
"So-called Urban Explorer"
| | | | | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 16 on 11/23/2004 10:01 PM >
| | | | Posted by MacGyver
Some, however, can be a wee (heh) bit larger. and nastier...
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someone hasnt gotten back to me in regards to what the snoticles taste like, could you get on that asap? That would be great, thanks.
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 17 on 11/23/2004 10:33 PM >
| | | | Posted by WMcheesemaster
It seems there is some sort of drain/sewer that follows the entire length of the creek for several kilometres, passing under it randomly. There is a cover every 100-200 metres, but they are all bolted shut with two steel screws.
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Almost certainly a sanitary sewer. A storm drain wouldn't follow (and pass underneath) a creek like that. Whether or not this is worth exploring is up to you.
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Billmac
Location: Scarborough
Gender: Male
well this ought to be different
| | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 18 on 11/25/2004 12:26 AM >
| | | | Posted by tick
Almost certainly a sanitary sewer. A storm drain wouldn't follow (and pass underneath) a creek like that. Whether or not this is worth exploring is up to you.
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Yeah, that's what i was thinking. Would it be safe for me to just pop the manhole and go down into the area just under it with no respirator, without touching the stream of human excrement? Is the open manhole going to bring enough oxygen in so i can just take a quick look around?
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Skaught
Location: Calgary
Gender: Male
| | | Re: What each type manhole cover means?
<Reply # 19 on 11/25/2004 12:44 AM >
| | | | I have seen drains run under creeks. In fact the biggest one in Alberta, perhpas Canada runs right under a river.
The drain is so big that if it drained into the river it would overwhelm it.
All I have online right now are some outfall pics. But Reduxzero was nice enough to model for me.
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