Kind of hard to make out, but the top is a sidewalk, and the bottom is a storm manhole on a curb inlet ... peaking out from under the sidewalk.
guess you wont be getting that flowline;-)
Or should it be not the best way to place a sidewalk?
Yeah ... the manhole was probably there first, but I think the manhole was probably placed in error because the box was set well back from the curb and out of the line with the rest of the curb inlets. The sidewalk, I think, is where it was supposed to be.
it would be interesting to see what a set of as-builts says. Are the the DI's supposedly identical?
That looks more like a water valve cover.
This is what a manhole looks like:
On a recent job, The plumbers set their own locations for their manholes. The manhole ended up being in the gutter similar to these pictures. I don't know how they got around not having to move it, but they did.
They are a pretty good company, and on one of their next jobs, they had me do the layout of the storm and sewer structures.
Not much use for that screw on the manhole lid, huh?
Somewhere deep in the TV history vaults there is an episode of The Andy Griffith Show where Andy is attempting to teach Opie some basic math. As I recall, there is a story type example of it taking a boy and a half an hour and a half to do something-----or something along that line. Opie gets all hung up on the "half a boy".
When viewing the manhole above, the first thought that came to mind was "What kind of a man could get into that manhole?" It would have to be "half a man".
Half a boy
Sheriff Andy Taylor: ...where there's somewhere like 400 needy boys in this county alone, or 1 1/2 boys per square mile.
Opie Taylor: There is?
Sheriff Andy Taylor: Sho' is.
Opie Taylor: I never seen one, Pa.
Sheriff Andy Taylor: Never seen one, what?
Opie Taylor: A half a boy.
Sheriff Andy Taylor: Well, its not really a half a boy, its a ratio.
Opie Taylor: Horatio who?
Sheriff Andy Taylor: Not Horatio. A ratio. Its mathematics - arithmetic. Look now Opie, forget that part of it. Forget the part about the half a boy.
Opie Taylor: Its pretty hard to forget a thing like that Pa.
Half a boy
I've heard the oldtimers say. A boys a boy. Two boys are half a boy and three boys is no boy at all.
I've seen a few of those here. Too many really.
It does make you wonder!
Those that do things like that are called a halfwit here. Not boy.
I'm sorry, but demolition was not in the contract.
Looks like someone may have given this one a little thought?
that cover looks a lot like a telephone company vault.