500 Manhole Covers Stolen From City Streets In Past Year [NBC 10]

About 500 thefts in the last year has[sic] cost the water department and customers $50,000. That includes money spent for manhole cover locks.

“It’ll stop them. Once we lock them down, they can’t get them up,” the department employee said.

Police said thieves are trying to sell the covers at scrap metal yards. The market is high for this heavy metal.

“They’re worth 12 cents a pound, roughly,” scrap yard owner David Richman said.