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Drain type: RCP, under construction at the time of this visit. Year: 2002 Region: North East Barrie. Drain accessibility: Quite accessible at the moment, we are not sure how much construction is yet to be done. Drain exitability: Same as the aforementioned -- it was wide open at both ends when we went. Traversability: It is a crouching pipe, not very long, and all the manhole chambers were only partially buried and didn't actually have covers yet. Interesting features: It's under construction, a fetal drain. Hazards: There really weren't any, other than the normal drain dangers. Recommendation: Not worth your time or effort.
Check out the mediocre Swift Lift photo gallery.
One day when I was taking Flameout to work I noticed that there was some
development goin' on, I said to Flameout "We should watch this area, they
will probably drop drains soon". On my way home I noticed that there was a
truck in the field loaded with drains, so I began to plan an excursion. That
night Grebin, Filter Boy, Dain Bramaged, Flameout and myself went to the
development site. We found that there was a short section of storm drains
laid and another few sections that were not. So, after playing around on the
un-laid pipes we climbed down into the vast pit where the storms
were partially buried. Flameout and Grebin went into the drain while Filter
Boy, Dain Bramaged, and myself walked along top. After a short walk in the
bitterly cold winter night we came to an open manhole -- I mean open in the
sense that it was only a concrete chamber, without an actual manhole cover.
It was there that Dain, Filter Boy and I jumped in. The drain itself was a
rather bland RCP, no graffiti or anything. However, it had no water table,
as well as no manholes/bars or other drainer death traps. After a quick run
we came out the end of the drain, we took a look around for any other
prospective drains, but found nothing. So back through the drain we went --
you see it was warmer underground than above. Once we reached the other end
of the aforementioned drain we clambered back out of the pit and scrambled
across the field to a large chunk of a drain. This section was a
manhole/pipe thingy, as they are known. Anyhow, it looked like a concrete
submarine -- to us anyway. After we were done playing around we made our way
back to the car and such ended the journey through our first incomplete
drain.
Naturally, the concrete submarine and other joys are in the Swift Lift photo
gallery.
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