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Topic: metal theft

A storm drain grate in a curb.
New California
Thursday, 7/2, 09:38 PM

The Case of San Francisco's Vanishing Sewer Grates

  • In the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, sewer-vent grates keep disappearing from the sidewalks — pried up in the small hours by someone with a headlamp and the right tools, and leaving behind hazardous holes.
  • The strange part: as scrap, the grates are nearly worthless, so no one can quite explain why.

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