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Hangzhou equips sewer manholes with life-saving webs

(CRIENGLISH.com)
Updated: 2008-08-29 15:53

Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang province, launched a project to add a protective web across each of its sewer manholes to help prevent citizens from falling in, Xinhua News Agency reports.

A worker tests the load capacity of a newly fixed web on August 27, 2008. [Xinhuanet]

Workers begin to attach a thick web beneath the cover of thousands of sewer manholes scattered throughout downtown Hangzhou. The manhole webs can support the weight of a man.

The project, which eliminates potential "death traps" in downtown Hangzhou, is expected to be finished by the end of this year.

Workers fix a protective web across a sewer manhole on Wednesday, August 27, 2008. [Xinhuanet]