Glass Creek
Rating: 1st September 2000

This drain is close to The Deathstar, Mummy and a short tram trip from Maze

The side chamber in this drain can be subject to concentrated levels of gas!

This Mummy type drain has a unique feature and is well worth visiting. It is easy to walk in and has some interesting things to see. While exploring there for the second time I met an okay group of young drain explorers called the NFIs

Drain Report

1. Entrance. The entrance to Glass Creek darkie is located in a park, right in the middle of a big gap between two blocks of flats and a house. Kind of unusual. You can spot the green bar fence easily from above. Entry is an easy scramble down the grass on the side of the portal then a cautious walk down the slanting concrete. Shoes with good grip are a must. The tunnel is a 2.4 meter high Mummy shaped tunnel with an almost flat floor in some places. The mummy changes shape slightly over it's length.

Glass Creek with drain explorers siloheted in the entrance.

The great thing about this tunnel is that it is so easy to walk in and there is so much to see. The local youth have covered the walls with graffiti for quite a way in. Even up past the gas chamber there is still some graf.

 

---

2. Gas chamber. This is a very unique feature in UA City's drains. When walking up the drain you should notice a hole in the right hand side of the tunnel about 150-200 meters in. This opens into a chamber under High Street. On the ceiling of the chamber various pipes can be seen. From this chamber you can actually get up on top of the drain! Unusual hey? There is a small grille up here which leads up under High Street.

The chamber can at times be filled with gas. If you smell gas in here don't enter the side chamber. On one occasion an adventuress drain explorer paused in this drain for a smoke. As he lit up an explosion occoured singing the hair off of his arm and blowing him to the ground. Amazingly he made it out alive.

3. Step. I probably have this in the wrong spot. Somewhere along here there's a step in the tunnel. It's not that exciting except when you're exploring with a group and someone doesn't notice it.

4. Split. eventually you will reach a split. The right hand tunnel by all accounts is not worth exploring, soon becoming a shrinker. Take the left hand tunnel heads almost due east from the split. It forms an RCP about 1.8 meters high, plenty of room to walk upright in.

5 RBT. There is a short section of RBT type tunnel somewhere in this system but I forget where. For most part the tunnel past the split is an old RCP type concrete pipe.

6. Exit Tunnel. Just before you come to the waterfalls in this drain a small side pipe on the left hand side of the drain. It's a short crawl to a unique gutterbox. The gutterbox is in fact in the middle of a park. The manholes here are a bit unusual, being two concrete type manholes but narrower than the usual type. Exiting the manhole reveals a quiet park, with a very convenient drink tap and even a garden tap to allow you to wash off. Don't drink the water from the garden tap, it is apparently recycled.

7. Falls. This drain contains a series of waterfalls, each about 1.6 meters high. The first of these is nothing special, but the second just has to be seen. About 2-3 minutes walk from the first waterfall it is unlike any other waterfall I've seen in a drain. No only do you have a small tunnel directly ahead continuing on but you also have a larger side tunnel to the left of the falls and a series of pipes located in a shaft leading up to a grille above the falls. The photo below gives a better idea of the scene but even then it does the falls no justice as the larger tunnel on the left is not quite in view.

Expo Report. from 1998

On the second occasion that I visited this drain, this time with Emor we came across a group of drain explorers known as the NFIs. We had already met this group, just a week before when visiting Coffin. Seeing the group in the drain, Emor and I decided to ask them if they wanted to join us in exploring the drain.

Some of the members of the NFI group included Valor, Yeddy (hope that's right) and several more who I forget. Their age group was all in the 14-16 year bracket. They have apparently explored this tunnel, Coffin and Mini-Tenth. They seemed to have been doing drains for a while as even the youngest walked along the drain confidently. All in all they were a pretty good bunch of guys who knew what they were doing and contributed to a great day out.

We waited for a while, as people chatted and introduced everyone. A few more teenagers turned up and in all nine joined Emor and myself. We ended up striding up the drain, three flashlights between the eleven of us.

It was interesting to hear some of the questions thrown at us, some were a bit out of the ballpark but we did our best to answer the sensible ones and ignored most of the way off ones. They asked us what some of the best drains were and I have to say that Maze and Anzac were mentioned, as was Dungeon.

Exploring drains is NOT legal in UA City! Do not enter drains.

Warning. Exploration of drains can lead to dehydration through excessive sweat. Drinking drain water can lead to serious intestinal illness. Drain water often contains heavy metal poisons, pathogens, e-coli and cryptosperidium. Do not drink the water unless you are from California in which case it�s probably better than what comes out your taps anyway.

Do NOT enter drains. Read this warning!

		Best Viewed at
Site Map		About this site

Important warning: This site is intended for viewing pleasure, do not attempt any of these activities

©Copyright notice © This entire site is copyrighted 1997 - 2006. No image or text may be reproduced, edited, copied, stored in any off-line storage device, or placed on any another website at any time, without written permission from Panic!, web site owner.