The EnCon Police of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection arrested two men Thursday.
47-year-old William Diehl of Ashford and 42-year-old Richard Duclau of Rogers were accused of stealing flood gates from the Flood Gate House on the Farmington River in Avon.
Both men sold them for scrap. Officials said the items stolen are worth $73,000 and the men sold them for $230 dollars.
Diehl and Duclau were charged with first-degree larceny, first-degree conspiracy to commit larceny and first-degree criminal mischief.