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Drain type: A brief RCP run to a very wet place. Year: Unknown. Region: The outskirts of residential Barrie. Drain accessibility: Quite easy at the downstream end, but making it into any pipe past the first chamber is a bit of a challenge. Drain exitability: Back the way you came, at least as far as we went. Traversability: Just fine up to the first chamber, where it falls off drastically. Interesting features: Lots of water. Look, we only went to the first chamber, okay? Oh yeah, there's also a really weird pollutant trap-type-thing in a reservoir upstream. Hazards: Getting damn well soaked (we did). Recommendation: Don't do it. Especially if it's below zero out and the car is a long way away (it was -_- ).
February, 2002 Wet Nightmares has a brief photo gallery.
One extremely cold winter night, Asher, Dain Bramaged, Grebin, Filter Boy
and myself decided to go scout for drains in the south end of Barrie. This
was, in retrospect, not the wisest decision we could have made, but we had a
severe lack of anything else to do at the time.
After we left the reservoir we went downstream of this pollutant trap,
across a road
and down to a riverbank, where we were overjoyed to find a rather large pipe
pouring out a
good deal of water. We all climbed in and began walking the short distance
to the first chamber, which was the end of the line for us -- there were
half a dozen
pipes at various angles and heights, all pouring a copious volume of water
into the room. There was literally not a single dry spot to stand, which
explains
why we didn't really get many photos of this chamber. Grebin pulled himself
up into one of the bigger pipes and ran it a ways, but came back and told
us that there was nothing to see, so we bailed -- out into the winter night,
all of us dripping wet. Hooray!
-Snee
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