CINCINNATI — Seven Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) employees were disciplined for their role in the theft of up to $50,000 worth of underground lead pipes over the course of six years.

The city’s internal audit division discovered the theft during an April performance audit.

City investigators pulled surveillance video that showed workers loading scrap lead into the back of a dump truck in May that was later driven away by a maintenance worker, according to a Sept. 15 city human resources report.

Ray Pfeffer Cincinnati interim assistant city manager Cathy Bailey

That maintenance worker resigned in July in lieu of termination, after the city charged him internally with theft, according to the human resources report.

“I don’t think it’s a cultural problem here, I think this was

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