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Modest Sanitary Utility Room the First
Year: 1985
Location: St. Joseph's High School, Barrie.
Status: The manhole which opens into the utility room is currently
unbolted [02/15/02].
Accessibility: With a crowbar and a bit of muscle access is fairly
simple -- so long as the bolts
aren't put back on. Ever.
Hazards: The major hazard is the sanitary sewer running underneath
the utility room itself.
Interesting features: Gauges and valves for ventilation and
pumping.
Recommendation: I wouldn't make a trip out to Barrie for it, but it
did add some spice to our night.
Grebin's Unlikely Discovery We have a small image gallery from our
first visit to MSUR.
During a night of infiltration adventures Grebin insisted that we look into
a manhole at his school he had seen some men pulling machinery of some
mysterious nature out of. Now, usually if someone told us this we would
be quite happy to check it out, however Grebin has a bad track record for
this sort of thing. Consider the "bunker" that was in fact a reservoir, his
claims that Bell utility boxes are not flooded, and the ill-fated descent
into a Sanitary Sewer in opposition to our dire warnings -- the latter was
brief.
Nonetheless we continued to skeptically follow up on Grebin's leads, as he
did find the Trashy and Queen's drains. Our hope was that he would hit
paydirt again.
Off we went to find the mythical utility room of Barrie below; our lead was
that it was located in a local schoolyard. Once we arrived we found a
slightly oversized manhole in a walkway at the end of some portables. Grebin
pulled out his sleeve sized crowbar and went to work on opening the
usually-bolted manhole. Success! Once the manhole was open everyone poured
into the blackness that awaited us... some more than others. Filter Boy was
the first to descend, then Grebin, then the rest of us -- with the exception
of Flame0ut. The smell was familiar, in some way; it was pungent and stuffy,
so to speak. Those of us with glasses found that the room, as it were, was
warm enough to quickly fog them over. I was unable to see much with my
glasses off, so I took a quick look around at the valves and whatnot then
made my way out, making room for another person. The room itself was not
very big, hence Flame0ut not getting in et al -- not to say he didn't take a
quick peep. Dain Bramaged, Filter Boy and Grebin all remained in the small
utility room whilst I clambered out. While Dain and Filter Boy snapped a few
photos Grebin opened a small hatch, much to his surprise it opened into a
sanitary sewer.
Grebin seems to have a thing for sanitary sewers, much to our dismay.
Once they realized that they were standing on top of a sanitary sewer and
the air they were breathing was, well, 'Sanitary air' they did not have much
incentive to stay. Out of the only utility room we have found in Barrie they
came and off we went. Poor Flame0ut did not get a chance to venture in, but
there is always another day. Right? Right.
If nothing else, this tunnel gave us hope that Barrie Below may hold more
interesting utility tunnels, however, if this means running through sans you
can count me out.
Ooh, photo gallery!
-Asher
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