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Unconvinced copper thieves plunged Donggang Avenue into darkness by unplugging the underground line connecting the three-mile street lamps.
Until February, the provincial Department of Transport will repair about 100 street lamps extinguished along the industrial artery between the Burlington elevator Bridge and the Windermere basin, running with QEW.
Last year, people who stole wires also risked electric shock, robbing city street lights 10 times, and recently digging cables about 18 m long in the previous global Park.
MTO spokesman Astrid Poei said: "The theft of the ministry's infrastructure is an increasingly serious problem in Hamilton . " He noted that similar cables were also available on QEW and 6
Both OPP and Hamilton police are investigating the theft, she said.
The contractor will replace the stolen wire as soon as possible and install "preventive measures" in Donggang ".
But Poei warned that it was a "time-
Consume "repairs, required every 10-metre-
High bars that need to be removed, refitted, and reinstalled.
It will be a dark drive until February, but Poei says pedestrians have nothing to fear because there is a power outage and the wires stretch out from the bottom of the pole.
This gave residents Lynda Lukasik a sigh of relief as he first noticed the wires coming out of the lighting standard while riding his bike a few days ago.
"Oh, I guess, it doesn't look safe," she recalls . ".
"A few days later, I drove home and realized that the whole road was actually dark.
"Poei said that MTO found the first ongoing theft in the summer.
At about the same time, a pile of stripped wire shells began to appear in the nearby Windermere basin.
This fall, the onlookers reported that plastic had strangled at least two waterbirds in Red Mountain Creek.
Poei said the ministry would not reveal how the thief had laid several kilometers of underground wires on busy roads, nor how it hoped to protect the restored lighting standards in the future.
But, street lamp project manager Peter Locs says the city has begun replacing stolen copper wire with aluminum, which is much less valuable for rogue scraping injured.
Although copper prices have fallen below $3 a pound, theft tends to surge as copper prices rise, he said.
A few years ago-
Copper was worth $3. 60 a pound —
The thief dug up the monitoring wire of the landfill in the global Park and removed the baseball floodlight.
The Hongshan pedestrian bridge has also been plundered many times.
Street lamp repairs range from $500 to $10,000, Locs said.
"If we have to do a lot of digging, or (the thieves)
It caused a lot of damage. "He said.
This problem is so serious that it is enough to make an emphasis on hard-
Park Project Manager Carla bonne says the city's infrastructure has been hit.
"It's just basically telling (thieves)
Hopefully their time is not worth it, "she said. Coun.
Sam Merulla recently asked city staff to report possible 24-
Hourly camera surveillance of city parks plagued by theft or illegal dumping.
"It's frustrating because we seem to have done everything to stop this kind of thing and there's one criminal who is busy coming up with another way," he said . ".
"Considering how dangerous it is to remove the wires from the site infrastructure, it is also amazing for me.
"At 2010, a man was electrocuted while trying to steal a wire from a wall panel transformer. A would-
On 2007, be thief was also severely burned when cutting live wires with a hacksaw at a closed factory on Lottridge Street.
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Unconvinced copper thieves plunged Donggang Avenue into darkness by unplugging the underground line connecting the three-mile street lamps.
Until February, the provincial Department of Transport will repair about 100 street lamps extinguished along the industrial artery between the Burlington elevator Bridge and the Windermere basin, running with QEW.
Last year, people who stole wires also risked electric shock, robbing city street lights 10 times, and recently digging cables about 18 m long in the previous global Park.
MTO spokesman Astrid Poei said: "The theft of the ministry's infrastructure is an increasingly serious problem in Hamilton . " He noted that similar cables were also available on QEW and 6
Both OPP and Hamilton police are investigating the theft, she said.
The contractor will replace the stolen wire as soon as possible and install "preventive measures" in Donggang ".
But Poei warned that it was a "time-
Consume "repairs, required every 10-metre-
High bars that need to be removed, refitted, and reinstalled.
It will be a dark drive until February, but Poei says pedestrians have nothing to fear because there is a power outage and the wires stretch out from the bottom of the pole.
This gave residents Lynda Lukasik a sigh of relief as he first noticed the wires coming out of the lighting standard while riding his bike a few days ago.
"Oh, I guess, it doesn't look safe," she recalls . ".
"A few days later, I drove home and realized that the whole road was actually dark.
"Poei said that MTO found the first ongoing theft in the summer.
At about the same time, a pile of stripped wire shells began to appear in the nearby Windermere basin.
This fall, the onlookers reported that plastic had strangled at least two waterbirds in Red Mountain Creek.
Poei said the ministry would not reveal how the thief had laid several kilometers of underground wires on busy roads, nor how it hoped to protect the restored lighting standards in the future.
But, street lamp project manager Peter Locs says the city has begun replacing stolen copper wire with aluminum, which is much less valuable for rogue scraping injured.
Although copper prices have fallen below $3 a pound, theft tends to surge as copper prices rise, he said.
A few years ago-
Copper was worth $3. 60 a pound —
The thief dug up the monitoring wire of the landfill in the global Park and removed the baseball floodlight.
The Hongshan pedestrian bridge has also been plundered many times.
Street lamp repairs range from $500 to $10,000, Locs said.
"If we have to do a lot of digging, or (the thieves)
It caused a lot of damage. "He said.
This problem is so serious that it is enough to make an emphasis on hard-
Park Project Manager Carla bonne says the city's infrastructure has been hit.
"It's just basically telling (thieves)
Hopefully their time is not worth it, "she said. Coun.
Sam Merulla recently asked city staff to report possible 24-
Hourly camera surveillance of city parks plagued by theft or illegal dumping.
"It's frustrating because we seem to have done everything to stop this kind of thing and there's one criminal who is busy coming up with another way," he said . ".
"Considering how dangerous it is to remove the wires from the site infrastructure, it is also amazing for me.
"At 2010, a man was electrocuted while trying to steal a wire from a wall panel transformer. A would-
On 2007, be thief was also severely burned when cutting live wires with a hacksaw at a closed factory on Lottridge Street.
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Unconvinced copper thieves plunged Donggang Avenue into darkness by unplugging the underground line connecting the three-mile street lamps.
Until February, the provincial Department of Transport will repair about 100 street lamps extinguished along the industrial artery between the Burlington elevator Bridge and the Windermere basin, running with QEW.
Last year, people who stole wires also risked electric shock, robbing city street lights 10 times, and recently digging cables about 18 m long in the previous global Park.
MTO spokesman Astrid Poei said: "The theft of the ministry's infrastructure is an increasingly serious problem in Hamilton . " He noted that similar cables were also available on QEW and 6
Both OPP and Hamilton police are investigating the theft, she said.
The contractor will replace the stolen wire as soon as possible and install "preventive measures" in Donggang ".
But Poei warned that it was a "time-
Consume "repairs, required every 10-metre-
High bars that need to be removed, refitted, and reinstalled.
It will be a dark drive until February, but Poei says pedestrians have nothing to fear because there is a power outage and the wires stretch out from the bottom of the pole.
This gave residents Lynda Lukasik a sigh of relief as he first noticed the wires coming out of the lighting standard while riding his bike a few days ago.
"Oh, I guess, it doesn't look safe," she recalls . ".
"A few days later, I drove home and realized that the whole road was actually dark.
"Poei said that MTO found the first ongoing theft in the summer.
At about the same time, a pile of stripped wire shells began to appear in the nearby Windermere basin.
This fall, the onlookers reported that plastic had strangled at least two waterbirds in Red Mountain Creek.
Poei said the ministry would not reveal how the thief had laid several kilometers of underground wires on busy roads, nor how it hoped to protect the restored lighting standards in the future.
But, street lamp project manager Peter Locs says the city has begun replacing stolen copper wire with aluminum, which is much less valuable for rogue scraping injured.
Although copper prices have fallen below $3 a pound, theft tends to surge as copper prices rise, he said.
A few years ago-
Copper was worth $3. 60 a pound —
The thief dug up the monitoring wire of the landfill in the global Park and removed the baseball floodlight.
The Hongshan pedestrian bridge has also been plundered many times.
Street lamp repairs range from $500 to $10,000, Locs said.
"If we have to do a lot of digging, or (the thieves)
It caused a lot of damage. "He said.
This problem is so serious that it is enough to make an emphasis on hard-
Park Project Manager Carla bonne says the city's infrastructure has been hit.
"It's just basically telling (thieves)
Hopefully their time is not worth it, "she said. Coun.
Sam Merulla recently asked city staff to report possible 24-
Hourly camera surveillance of city parks plagued by theft or illegal dumping.
"It's frustrating because we seem to have done everything to stop this kind of thing and there's one criminal who is busy coming up with another way," he said . ".
"Considering how dangerous it is to remove the wires from the site infrastructure, it is also amazing for me.
"At 2010, a man was electrocuted while trying to steal a wire from a wall panel transformer. A would-
On 2007, be thief was also severely burned when cutting live wires with a hacksaw at a closed factory on Lottridge Street.
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