HUNTINGTON â More than 50 missing manhole lids and catch basin covers in Huntington have been reported as stolen. Huntington Water Quality Board Executive Director Brian Bracey said the lids and covers were taken. He said the Huntington Sanitary Board is assuming that the thefts occurred in order to get the scrap metal value of the lids and covers. âItâs an ebb and flow. We had waves of this that occur in my three years of tenure with them,â Bracey said of how often the covers go missing. He said itâs happened a couple of times and then it seems that people become aware of the issue and the thefts stop.