Help identify this manhole (pic)

touchdown77

Can you help me identify this manhole, its located on a public road and is very noisy when cars drive over it and I've reported it to the local council who say it belongs to Irish Water but nothing has been done to sort it out.

If I can identify who it belongs to then I can report it directly and get things moving.

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Lu Tze

touchdown77 wrote: »

Can you help me identify this manhole, its located on a public road and is very noisy when cars drive over it and I've reported it to the local council who say it belongs to Irish Water but nothing has been done to sort it out.

If I can identify who it belongs to then I can report it directly and get things moving.

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I would follow up with Irish water, I have seen chambers like that house pressure reducing valves previously. Not sure what you expect them to do about the noise though?

Luckysasha

It looks like a communication manhole. Was there any phone or broadband work in the area recently?

Calahonda52

Luckysasha wrote: »

It looks like a communication manhole. ?

+1
The last time I had this problem I squeezed a few tubes of clear silicone around the offending manhole, best done when traffic flow is reduced

d.pop

It's a generic manhole, available to buy easily enough so could be anybodies, I would say that these days most foul and storm manhole covers tend to be round unless a special so that rules out the council most likely.
Looking at the 4 opening leaves on it, i.e bigger opening than normal I would say the council advice to talk to Irish water could be right, looks like a chamber for a bulk meter or similar or maybe a large tee junction - valve arrangement.
Don't think you'd get ESB or Comms under a main road anymore, tend to stick to footpaths.
good luck.

Luckysasha

It's not ESB they have the security bolts on them.

GY A1

Looks like an eircom manhole lid
(More than likely but may not be )
Urban / rural ?

touchdown77 wrote: »

Can you help me identify this manhole, its located on a public road and is very noisy when cars drive over it and I've reported it to the local council who say it belongs to Irish Water but nothing has been done to sort it out.

If I can identify who it belongs to then I can report it directly and get things moving.

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GreenFolder2

It has an NDP logo on it so it could be any number of projects.

Eir usually have logos on them. So do ESB, Gas Networks Ireland.

It might be a fibre service for a MAN or it could be Virgin/UPC or a predecessor. Those are often unidentified.

It could also be council for lighting or traffic light wiring.

It doesn't look like the kind of thing you'd cap a sewer or water infrastructure with.

The council ultimately is who you should complain to though. They'll get onto the owner if it's disrupting a road surface.

AndrewJRenko

touchdown77 wrote: »

Can you help me identify this manhole, its located on a public road and is very noisy when cars drive over it and I've reported it to the local council who say it belongs to Irish Water but nothing has been done to sort it out.

If I can identify who it belongs to then I can report it directly and get things moving.

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The Council almost certainly have a contract from IW to maintain the infrastructure - ask them about that.

Luckysasha

All else fails you could just open it and see what's in it !!!!!!!

touchdown77

Thanks for everyone's replies, I'll chase up the council, they seem to be the first port of call. It makes a really loud banging noise when cars run over it, the road is very busy so the banging is nearly constant during the day.

Could have a stone on the lip that causes (part of) the cover to be raised at one end and the traffic makes the cover "see-saw" and banging down as it pivots over the stone.

DOCARCH

Luckysasha wrote: »

All else fails you could just open it and see what's in it !!!!!!!

With my Health & Safety hat on, probably not the most sensible of suggestions (given the busy road)!

As above, the NDP logo is a good clue....most likely to do with some form of communication services.

kieran.

NDP covers a large range of infrastructural projects, given the Co Co has said it's an Irish water manhole, it appears to be 1200 x 600 and you have said it's located in a road, I would guess it's a decompression/splash manhole linking a rising main to a gravity sewer. So if you are going to lift it to clean out the lid lip make sure you don't hear liquid flowing!

MixedMessages

d.pop wrote: »

It's a generic manhole, available to buy easily enough so could be anybodies, I would say that these days most foul and storm manhole covers tend to be round unless a special so that rules out the council most likely.
Looking at the 4 opening leaves on it, i.e bigger opening than normal I would say the council advice to talk to Irish water could be right, looks like a chamber for a bulk meter or similar or maybe a large tee junction - valve arrangement.
Don't think you'd get ESB or Comms under a main road anymore, tend to stick to footpaths.
good luck.

Agree that the double-triangle manhole cover is generic for multiple use

The noise generally arises due to a stone or such like in the frame causing an unevenness.

If you had lifting eyes (or a builder working in the park had them), then an initial clean of the frame (when protected from passing traffic) could well solve the problem

If not it will identify what is in the manhole....

Johnnyhpipe

Hi,

In reality, any response you get here from someone looking at a pic is purely speculative.

Its a cover, its impossible to tell from the information given what its covering.

GreenFolder2

All you can do is make a complaint to the council.
Also look up who your local councillors are ans contact them too.

They are your reps for this kind of thing, not the local TD.

Going straight to a utility often isn't much use as they may not even have any way of contacting them on such issues. ESB and Gas Networks Ireland are notable exceptions because there's a big risk to public safety. The telecommunications companies are often only contactable through customer service call centres. I remember trying to report to Eir that a cabinet was wide open and exposed to the rain and got nowhere until literally just walked up to a repair crew and told them. The 1901 number wouldn't connect me to anyone without inputting a valid Eir landline number first.

Prenderb

Try fixyourstreet.ie for notifying your council.

CandLearn

Did you ever find out who was responsible for it? I have the same situation in front of my apartment - I phoned Irish Water and they had a look at it and said it wasn't theirs.

AndrewJRenko

You could try the Wanksy approach, and see how quick someone comes out to sort it;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11570595/Meet-the-man-using-penises-to-fill-potholes.html

touchdown77

CandLearn wrote: »

Did you ever find out who was responsible for it? I have the same situation in front of my apartment - I phoned Irish Water and they had a look at it and said it wasn't theirs.

Yes I eventually got it sorted out, turned out the manhole belonged to enet and they were very helpful and sorted it out quickly

It would never have been sorted if people here weren't so helpful, boards is awesome in that way.