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processor - victorian culvert

Length	Around 3.2 km
Pipe type	>2m round brick, 3m concrete box
Interesting points	Parallel running sewer with several chambers adjoing both pipes
Bad points	Sliiiiipppyyy!!!
Smell rating (10 good, 0 bad)	8/10

	A vast drain, Processor welcomes you with a 2.5m round brick pipe, covered by a usually vegetation infested grille.
	A short way in and a little alcove in the side of the drain reveals a pair of large steel pipes descending from the road above.
	Numerous iron-based stalagtites inhabit this amazing drain. Probably Manchester's finest drain.
	Just off up a small side passage, a ladder leads up to a chamber. Shortly after this trip, this chamber was converted into a massive sewer overflow chamber, when we visited the works were well under way as can be seen.
	Numerous sluices to divert the sewer that ran below this chamber.
	Further along the very slippy, but increasingly interesting drain, a large RCP joined on the right and led to a big sewer chamber. This drain got it's name from this contraption. It is a sewage filtering thingy like in Supercharger, but the screen on this one is actually a conveyor belt.
	Time for a quick photo on the Manchester 2004 drain expo.
	Siologen and Jondoe discuss the finer points in life in the sewage processing chamber.
	The outfall from Processor is in a tranquil leafy valley. The end sewction of the drain has collapsed, leaving only the floor and sides of the brick pipe intact.