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Manhole mystery: 254 tunnels missing in North Miami Beach
The Miami Herald ^ | September 13, 2010 | Madege Charles

Posted on 09/13/2010 9:04:44 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

How does a city lose 2,500 feet of tunnels under its streets?

North Miami Beach would like to know.

Over a four-year period, the city contracted with a construction company to build 254 manholes -- the tunnels that run down from street level to utility pipes 8 to 10 feet below.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: florida; manhole; manholes; miamibeach; northmiamibeach; tunnel; tunnels
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To: mamelukesabre
" Maybe i should go exploring?"

I'll join the rescue party if you don't return.

21 posted on 09/13/2010 9:29:00 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: mamelukesabre
Maybe I should build something down there.

About a mile from my home there is a large drainage tile and basin. As very dumb kids we'd play in these tunnels. One summer we built a fort on top of the biggest cistern, then it rained one day while we were away and we came back to find a small lake and all our stuff we'd left in it, under 3 feet of water!

So, I'd pass on the building something part of the plan. LOL

22 posted on 09/13/2010 9:30:44 PM PDT by RachelFaith (2010 is going to be a 100 seat Tsunami - Welcome to "The Hunt for Red November".)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I had a summer job in college inspecting manholes and sewer systems for a city. Even in a medium-size midwest town 100+ years of people building stuff underground and keeping shoddy records results in a lot of surprises.


23 posted on 09/13/2010 9:35:19 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: mamelukesabre

Are you tellin’ me ya gotta connect da manhole to a PIPE?! Hey, who knew!?/s;)


24 posted on 09/13/2010 9:37:49 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: ConservativeStatement
What? You expect a gubermint employee to scrape by on a mere $100,000 salary plus benefits? What choice did Martin King have but to commit massive procurement fraud?

At least Martin was paid in full during his leave of absence....

Ex-North Miami Beach official was paid $24,536 to stay home

25 posted on 09/13/2010 9:39:25 PM PDT by Stultis (Democrats. Still devoted to the three S's: Slavery, Segregation and Socialism.)
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To: null and void
Dude! You have the makings of a perfect zombie survival plan!

Or a Geraldo special.

Nah, I like your idea better.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

26 posted on 09/13/2010 9:41:34 PM PDT by The Comedian
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To: gura

makes a person wonder about NYC. There’s gotta be nearly as much city under the ground as above ground. Probably half of it lost and forgotten. I wonder how many times they run a pipe THROUGH a pipe and wonder what the heck that pipe was they just ran their pipe through...lol


27 posted on 09/13/2010 9:41:46 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: ConservativeStatement

Corruption in government??? Surely you jest! SURELY!


28 posted on 09/13/2010 9:44:57 PM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: mamelukesabre
Governmet worker: "What is an as ine?" *cuts through it, giant explosion* "oh gas line!"

Sounds stupid but think how many times underground lines are chopped through.

29 posted on 09/13/2010 9:48:19 PM PDT by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: ConservativeStatement

All their pipes went down the tube along with the rest of the taxpayers money.


30 posted on 09/13/2010 9:49:09 PM PDT by Tagurit (Are your pigs fed, watered and ready to fly?)
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To: RachelFaith

What ‘we’ are you talking about? Are you and your husband having a baby or is there something big in the offing that will affect us all?


31 posted on 09/13/2010 9:49:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
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To: mamelukesabre

It sounds interesting anyway. Make sure there are no other access points, or seal them off yourself, reinforce any weak points and build your own bat cave. Who knows you might even find utilities you can tap into. lol


32 posted on 09/13/2010 9:53:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Well, when you can’t find the hole you can’t lay pipe.


33 posted on 09/13/2010 9:58:49 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Bigun

Stop speaking jive....


34 posted on 09/13/2010 10:02:05 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: RachelFaith

I like that.


35 posted on 09/13/2010 10:16:07 PM PDT by allmost
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To: mamelukesabre

Hmmm... Brick and mortar tunnel, big enough for a small truck, runs from the river into town, but the city has no records? If you find any 80 year old scotch down there, I’ll take it off your hands.


36 posted on 09/13/2010 10:43:57 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: TigersEye
What ‘we’ are you talking about?

All conservatives great and small when the elections come in about 20 hours from now.

37 posted on 09/13/2010 10:44:48 PM PDT by RachelFaith (2010 is going to be a 100 seat Tsunami - Welcome to "The Hunt for Red November".)
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To: blackbart.223; mamelukesabre
" Maybe i should go exploring?"

I'll join the rescue party if you don't return.

We'll hold it at mameluke's house. I'll bring the pretzels, you bring the beer.

38 posted on 09/13/2010 10:46:58 PM PDT by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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To: RachelFaith

Oh, OK. We had our primary election here last month.


39 posted on 09/13/2010 10:49:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
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To: gura

For a while I worked for a company that made systems for remote sewer inspection and repair. “No dig” technology, they call it.

One major function of the systems was to document the exact location and dimensions of each line inspected, and to integrate that into a municipal utility database.


40 posted on 09/13/2010 10:51:09 PM PDT by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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