A manhole or maintenance hole is the top opening to an underground vault used to house an access point for making connections or performing maintenance on underground and buried public utility and other services including sewers, telephone, electricity, storm drains and gas. It is protected by a manhole cover, a (usually metal) plug designed to prevent accidental or unauthorised access to the manhole.
Manholes are generally found in urban areas, in streets and occasionally under sidewalks.
In rural and undeveloped areas, services such as telephone and electric are carried on pylons.
Bobbi Mastrangelo, The “Grate Artist”, is internationally known for her unique creations based on the theme of manhole covers.
Manhole covers were designed to provide access to underground utilities such as power, sewerage, gas, telephone etc. Beneath them lies a surface tunnel, with labyrinthine corridors connected.
By doing that she lifted the heavy manhole and was courageous enough to go back down into the labyrinthine corridors.
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