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This drain is BIG, both in length and cross section. It is the culvert that I originally thought I'd found
when I came across Mistaken Identity. It takes it's name from the fact that
it is so slippery you end up moonwalking (shamone, hee, heee) all over the show trying to get anywhere. There is
still a massive amount of this system left to explore. It is one of the best drains I have ever been down....
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Looking out from The Baptizer and into Moonwalker. |
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The stream disappears into an RCP, impending doom is threatening to seal in all who enter. |
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Right around the corner from the door 'o doom (TM), the massiveness of the drain is revealed. Huge chunks of
masonry weighing hundreds of kilos are strewn across the floor. |
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A few hundred metres upstream, this junction is revelaed. Natural light streams in up ahead. |
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The source of the daylight. The concrete beams look removable, as if machinery can be lowered into the drain. |
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Ramps? For driving a Bobcat up when cleaning debris out of the drain? |
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Yet another junction, and a ladder up into the compound of a well know delivery company :) |
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Another unexplored junction. |
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Another junction off to the left leads to an overflow chamber. We came from where Oggy is standing. Unlike any overflow
chamber that I've been in before, there was no water flow through this at all. |
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Following the dry brick arch upstream, there is an even bigger overflow chamber. For a scale of size, the wall on the left
is 2 metres high. |
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The other side of the wall, another drain runs through. Strangely, this doesn't smell...... There was
all sorts of ultrasonic depth sensors and associated electronics stashed in a nearby manhole shaft. |
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Looking up stream. |
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Back in the first overflow chamber, the small pipe leading off drops vertically down about 2m. There was a loud
rushing sound in the distance so I had to follow it. At the bottom of the shaft is a 1.5m RBP, very clean water within.
I followed it for about 400m, and found the source of the noise....... gross. |
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After about 3km from the flap 'o doom, the inlet emerges. |
