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 Wormgear
Location: Scarborough - Toronto, Ontario
Gender: Male
Insane In The Drain
 |  | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 20 on 3/9/2010 3:20 PM >
|  | | | Posted by mortimer
No, he's not. That's west of this. I've been to the outfall from the original post, but not Ninj's Bluff. Kowalski's been to Ninj's Bluff, it's on his site.
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I checked out that outfall recently too, but these days it's done up like a bunker. It's straight west of the westernmost parking lot in Bluffer's Park, feeding into the filtration ponds like mortimer mentioned. The outfall itself is pretty much impassable, having been turned into a five foot wall with a one foot high barred grate on top, with a few tiny grates lower down. There is a manhole access tunnel beside it, but it's pretty well bolted down and padlocked. Might still be able to get in via manhole on the top of the bluffs, but haven't tried that yet.
What I -really- wanna check out is the outfall at Willowdale and Cummer: http://maps.google...03449&z=18&iwloc=A
This thing is huge, looks really old, and the park northwest of the outfall has tons of manhole covers with what looks like direct access. It also has a small shed-like building with a few antennas, which means it's either a water level monitoring station or has a few remote-access floodgates. VERY interesting looking stretch... the Willowdale system is one of the older ones, and since it's coming from a somewhat wealthy area, is probably overbuilt like mad the same way Gargantua is. Been waiting for a little warm weather to go do a proper dive, and since it's getting nice and warm now, I'll be checking it out any day now.
wormgear -noun, verb (slang)
1. Boots, coveralls, and other frequently muddy gear worn by drainers ("Take off your filthy worm gear!")
2. The act of getting unstuck in a corrugated metal pipe, in which case the only escape is having your buddies spin you around like a corkscrew |
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Air
      
Location: Canada
| | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 21 on 3/10/2010 1:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by Wormgear
I checked out that outfall recently too, but these days it's done up like a bunker. It's straight west of the westernmost parking lot in Bluffer's Park, feeding into the filtration ponds like mortimer mentioned. The outfall itself is pretty much impassable, having been turned into a five foot wall with a one foot high barred grate on top, with a few tiny grates lower down. There is a manhole access tunnel beside it, but it's pretty well bolted down and padlocked. Might still be able to get in via manhole on the top of the bluffs, but haven't tried that yet.
What I -really- wanna check out is the outfall at Willowdale and Cummer: http://maps.google...03449&z=18&iwloc=A
This thing is huge, looks really old, and the park northwest of the outfall has tons of manhole covers with what looks like direct access. It also has a small shed-like building with a few antennas, which means it's either a water level monitoring station or has a few remote-access floodgates. VERY interesting looking stretch... the Willowdale system is one of the older ones, and since it's coming from a somewhat wealthy area, is probably overbuilt like mad the same way Gargantua is. Been waiting for a little warm weather to go do a proper dive, and since it's getting nice and warm now, I'll be checking it out any day now.
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What does the sign say? I'm amazed at there is a house built right onto it.
"The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist |
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Wormgear
Location: Scarborough - Toronto, Ontario
Gender: Male
Insane In The Drain
| | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 22 on 3/10/2010 4:55 PM >
| | | | Posted by Air 33
What does the sign say? I'm amazed at there is a house built right onto it.
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Er, what house?
wormgear -noun, verb (slang)
1. Boots, coveralls, and other frequently muddy gear worn by drainers ("Take off your filthy worm gear!")
2. The act of getting unstuck in a corrugated metal pipe, in which case the only escape is having your buddies spin you around like a corkscrew |
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| |  | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 23 on 3/10/2010 6:02 PM >
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That one's known as baked beans, I think Siologen found it when he was here. I haven't been in that one, so couldn't tell you anything more about it.
The outfall leading into the storm ponds isn't Ninj's Bluff, it's the one with the death dropshaft that I checked out from the top. Ninj's Bluff is further east in the park, although having not been there I couldn't tell you where, exactly.
yep. |
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kowalski
| | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 24 on 3/10/2010 11:04 PM >
| | | | Posted by mortimer
The outfall leading into the storm ponds isn't Ninj's Bluff, it's the one with the death dropshaft that I checked out from the top. Ninj's Bluff is further east in the park, although having not been there I couldn't tell you where, exactly.
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It outfalls into the lake, and is visible on satellite.
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Air
Location: Canada
| | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 25 on 3/11/2010 12:53 AM >
| | | | Posted by Wormgear
Er, what house?
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that house next to the outfall by your willowdale drain you just posted. Its built way closer then I have seen before.
[last edit 3/11/2010 12:54 AM by Air - edited 1 times]
"The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist |
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inventor77
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 26 on 3/11/2010 2:14 AM >
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that drain is nothing special. Fiendishly annoying CMP to walk through and what might have been an illegal sewage hookup.
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Air
Location: Canada
| | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 27 on 3/11/2010 3:02 AM >
| | | | Posted by inventor77
that drain is nothing special. Fiendishly annoying CMP to walk through and what might have been an illegal sewage hookup.
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it isn't horribly long either.
"The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist |
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Wormgear
Location: Scarborough - Toronto, Ontario
Gender: Male
Insane In The Drain
| | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 28 on 3/11/2010 3:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by inventor77
that drain is nothing special. Fiendishly annoying CMP to walk through and what might have been an illegal sewage hookup.
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That's it? Dammit. Okay, other ideas for stuff in the area... anyone know of a place in Scarborough called 'construction hill'? Near Kingston and Danforth, just east of Rosetta Hill. http://maps.google...03449&z=18&iwloc=A I popped a manhole at this exact location recently, looks like a nice big rectangular drain with a channel running in the middle of the tunnel. Probably heads to the outfall just down the hill, which is barred up all to hell. Might be worth checking out, and a good place to employ some credibility props, as the manhole is smack in the middle of a walking path.
wormgear -noun, verb (slang)
1. Boots, coveralls, and other frequently muddy gear worn by drainers ("Take off your filthy worm gear!")
2. The act of getting unstuck in a corrugated metal pipe, in which case the only escape is having your buddies spin you around like a corkscrew |
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 29 on 3/11/2010 4:25 PM >
| | | | That area's on my to do list, I don't know anything specific about it yet though. Hop in, report back, I'd love to know what's there.
No need for 'credibility props,' just lift the lid and climb on in. It's not that busy an area, especially after dark.
yep. |
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ignavus
Location: Tdot
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 30 on 3/12/2010 2:03 AM >
| | | | Like Mortimer stated; a cloak of darkness is your friend... embrace it, and you will be rewarded.
Pretty much all of Scarborough is on our "to do" list. Now make haste!
Angels of the Underground
AOTU.ca |
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GlobeTrotter
Location: Wherever the tunnels/abandoned buildings/nachos are.
Gender: Male
What, Me Worry?
| | Re: Storm Drain @ Guildwood
<Reply # 31 on 4/5/2010 3:11 AM >
| | | | Well, its been a while since I've been able to log in to UER again. But heeerrreee I go... I present the results of my drain dive in the Guild drain. Oh, and that bunker is actually in the middle of the beach- the back doesn't touch the bluffs, so sorry 'bout any misleading ideas.
The drain goes into the bluffs (pretty strait north), connecting to a drop shaft at the end of Morningside Ave. The dropshaft is a connecting point for two other drains, but is impassable (a sewage shower, and covered by a grate too boot). Im almost positive its a CSO, because after the initial floods of what looks (and smells!) like sanitary sewage after a storm, it reverts to a trickle of run-off from streets. Its really piddly when its comes to length; its actually only 350 feet from the outfall to the drop, however, it the tunnel's shape does kinda make it up:
It's a concrete arch! But, its odd- it looks as if its been hand-stucckoed, or smoothed. Dating from 'bout the 50s-60s, maybe? There was no date stamp, although there may have been at one point, but that is because the bluffs collapsed some time ago, and the front part is rebuilt with RCP for 30 feet:
A floor pic:
The dropshaft (sorry, crappy camera is alls I gots):
O'Malley, a friend who came draining, with a lead-acid-battery-powered-MR16-halogen-on-a-stick:
Ooh...the power!(as for me, I use an Ultrafire LED torch from DX)
Heading back, taken 'bout 150' from the entrance.
Now you can see the RCP-RCA change:
I took some shots of the dropshaft from the access cover off Morningside:
I did a little research- and mapped where the pipes are, and lead too (red= known, blue= educated guesswork):
Well, its not a very interesting drain, but heh. There is also a grated drain located within a 2 km of the one I just explored, but O'Malley and I couldn't get in, what with all the people around and the fact that having a tied-open grate might draw attention (we're soft, OK?). It too is most definitively a CSO, and a small one at that, a backbreaker. Its location: 43°44'29.77"N, 79°11'44.96"W.
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