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Sunnidale Drain -- More Municipal Glory

Drain type: The drain begins in an odd fashion. It is corrugated steel to the first manhole chamber, which obviously makes it difficult to maneuver in. After that it turns into your run-of-the-mill RCP, a wonderfully terrible municipal drain.
Year: Relatively old drain, perhaps dating back to the 1980?s.
Region: It is in the Northern end of the city, near Sunnidale Park.
Drain accessibility: High. Firstly, you must go into the culvert, which is also corrugated steel. Once into the culvert you must walk for a short time until you happen across a small drain peeping out from the side of the culvert.
Drain exitability: Low. Unless of course you have your uberleet-mad-manhole popping skills on. WE turned around, we later found out that the drain only becomes smaller and probably more oxygen deprived.
Traversability: Once you are into the drain you have, once again I say, corrugated steel to deal with. Be sure not to tear your clothes, or more so, yourself open. Once you reach the first manhole chamber you will be rid of the corrugated steel. Then what, asks the gallant drainer? Then it is all RCP.
Interesting features: Other than the corrugated steel and the third manhole chamber is gigantic, none.
Hazards: Dangerous climbs, steep falls, and oxygen deprivation!!! Watch out for that in this drain.
Recommendation: Do not do this drain. I would not do this drain again, ever. However, if you have the tools to pop a manhole and check the air quality, it may not be so bad.

The Terrible Sunnidale Drain Excursion
One night Grebin, Dain Bramaged, Flame0ut and I decided to go out. So we did, we wandered around for awhile and then decided that we would go draining. Luckily we always have our equipment on hand. So, we scurried down the hill to the culvert which the drain exited from.
[Just to note, Grebin and myself had been to this drain back in the day when it was just us. When we came to it the water was rushing and up to our knees. Although we were resourceful with our slippery garbage hip waders, we did not get in. The current was just too strong and we went home. This time the culvert was dried up and traversable.]


This is the culvert that we enter to access the drain. We can all stand up in the culvert, not the drain though!


Once again a shot of the culvert, this was just before the drain, I am of course, aiming the camera away from the drain.

So we all went in, finally we got to the drain, then we all got in. Corrugated steel is less than favorable to maneuver, but we had no choice, so we pushed on.

Dain Bramaged and Grebin standing beside the drain. This was taken just before Grebin decided to change his clothes.

So it goes?
After a careful trek through the first part of the drain we reached a manhole chamber. It was not extravagantly large, but comforting nonetheless.


The first manhole chamber. Here crouches Grebin, he was trying to lift the manhole cover. If there is one thing we fail at, it is lifting manhole covers.


Comforting as much as a manhole chamber with sanitary running through it can be. Also, there seems to have been other visitors here.

We decided to go on after the first chamber, hoping that it would get better. So far we have had no luck with this tecnique. Drains around here tend to start not so good and get worse. However, we were happy we did once we reached the third chamber. It was one of the biggest, possibly THE biggest, chambers we have been in. It was also the first proper junction with two (arguably) traversable branches we've found here.


Flame0ut and I sitting in one of the junctions in the third manhole chamber.


Grebin, Flame0ut (Snee) and Dain Bramaged in the third manhole chamber. Although it was large, it was difficult to find an angle to show this.

We made it to the fourth manhole chamber before we decided to turn around. The drain was getting smaller and we were beginning to feel the effects of oxygen deprivation. So out we went, a cranky as ever (which seems to happen when we are oxygen deprived, go figure). Since Grebin could not pop a manhole, and god knows none of us could, we had to go all the way back through the small RCP?s.


A shot before we left? This is Flame0ut standing in the first manhole chamber. If you look close enough you can see the corrugated steel.

So we made our way out of the drain, then out of the culvert. All was, as they say, good.


This was the exit (for us) of the culvert. Flame0ut was taking a quick rest while Grebin was taking a quick smoke, hence the smoke in the top right corner of the image..

So, that was our journey through the land of corrugated steel, in case you did not notice I used the term "corrugated steel" about nine times! Hooray for me.

-Asher

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