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Beta
Location: Georgia Gender: Male
Under the Gun
| | | | Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? < on 1/12/2009 8:49 AM >
| | | So, drains, sewers, etc. The guy who travels with me has been wanting to do this since neither of us have. I found this:
But I think it's just the drain off a nearby lake, and doesn't go too far. I know the tunnel must be fairly sturdy, since it runs under what used to be train tracks. However, we were walking by the river in town, and came across a raised manhole cover. Since it has a grips, steps, ladder, (whatever you want to call it) in there, we thought it might be promising. But what are some things to keep in mind for doing this? I'm mostly worried about air quality, to be honest.
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 1 on 1/12/2009 11:02 AM >
| | | I believe this is what you're looking for: http://www.infiltr...ions-approach.html
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IIVQ
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
| | | | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 2 on 1/12/2009 11:17 AM >
| | | Posted by Beta However, we were walking by the river in town, and came across a raised manhole cover. Since it has a grips, steps, ladder, (whatever you want to call it)
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Stepirons. (don't know how to pronounce it though, if it's step - irons or stepirons like you pronounce shenanigans) Tijmen
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metawaffle King of Puns
Location: Brisbane! Gender: Male
Purveyor of Fine Lampshades
| | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 3 on 1/12/2009 11:23 AM >
| | | Posted by IIVQ
Stepirons. (don't know how to pronounce it though, if it's step - irons or stepirons like you pronounce shenanigans) Tijmen
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You know, I'd never even considered that it might be anything other than step-irons
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hatsumi
| | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 4 on 1/12/2009 1:35 PM >
| | | iron rungs ? read the approach,doc for essential basics. follow the absolute golden rule, no matter what " no drains when it rains " a couple of spare torches and some batteries, take a friend, tell another where your going go forth good explorer and see where yonder tunnels go @@!!
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AnAppleSnail
Location: Charlotte, NC Gender: Male
ALL the flashlights!
| | | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 5 on 1/12/2009 1:59 PM >
| | | Posted by Beta
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Looks exactly like the ones here that go under the train tracks. Two of mine have wooden floors though...let us know what ya find! If it's like mine it's about 4 feet tall, which will be pretty exhausting to go in. If you feel airflow constantly, you're doing good. Make sure you aren't getting weirdly dizzy, headachey, or light-headed, and that's the most common air-quality trouble you'll have.
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Beta
Location: Georgia Gender: Male
Under the Gun
| | | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 6 on 1/12/2009 5:32 PM >
| | | I've got to do something like that once, even if I prefer buildings. I just hate roaches. The idea of being in a tunnel with those... evil things crawling all around me, I don't know if I want to do it. This manhole cover didn't have a bad smell, and I didn't hear water in it, so I'm hoping it'll be better.
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DashingFlamingos
Location: Providence, Rhode Island Gender: Female
| | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 7 on 1/12/2009 6:00 PM >
| | | Posted by Beta I've got to do something like that once, even if I prefer buildings. I just hate roaches. The idea of being in a tunnel with those... evil things crawling all around me, I don't know if I want to do it. This manhole cover didn't have a bad smell, and I didn't hear water in it, so I'm hoping it'll be better.
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Wait until you encounter a rat. There's a few going in the drains across from my mothers house, always scared me away from going in.
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AnAppleSnail
Location: Charlotte, NC Gender: Male
ALL the flashlights!
| | | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 8 on 1/12/2009 6:40 PM >
| | | Posted by DashingFlamingos
Wait until you encounter a rat. There's a few going in the drains across from my mothers house, always scared me away from going in.
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Posted by Beta I've got to do something like that once, even if I prefer buildings. I just hate roaches. The idea of being in a tunnel with those... evil things crawling all around me, I don't know if I want to do it. This manhole cover didn't have a bad smell, and I didn't hear water in it, so I'm hoping it'll be better.
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Oh c'mon, roaches and rats just pounce from the ceiling into your hair and chew at your ears...
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 9 on 1/12/2009 6:55 PM >
| | | Posted by Beta However, we were walking by the river in town, and came across a raised manhole cover. Since it has a grips, steps, ladder, (whatever you want to call it) in there, we thought it might be promising. But what are some things to keep in mind for doing this? I'm mostly worried about air quality, to be honest. http://img.photobu...eater/100_3643.jpg
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Pretty much any drainage system manhole you encounter will have step-irons or a ladder so seeing them isn't exactly an indicator of something worthwhile. Judging by the photo, it doesn't look as though it's anything very big. Unless you enjoy crawling through 24" pipes, then I'd suggest looking elsewhere.
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DashingFlamingos
Location: Providence, Rhode Island Gender: Female
| | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 10 on 1/12/2009 9:07 PM >
| | | Posted by AnAppleSnail
Oh c'mon, roaches and rats just pounce from the ceiling into your hair and chew at your ears...
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My ears do NOT make good chew toys!!!
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Beta
Location: Georgia Gender: Male
Under the Gun
| | | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 11 on 1/12/2009 9:12 PM >
| | | Posted by AnAppleSnail Oh c'mon, roaches and rats just pounce from the ceiling into your hair and chew at your ears...
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Rats don't bother me. Roaches are just soulless spawns of Satan and the malevolent creatures behind Nazism, nightmares, and The View.
Posted by micro Pretty much any drainage system manhole you encounter will have step-irons or a ladder so seeing them isn't exactly an indicator of something worthwhile. Judging by the photo, it doesn't look as though it's anything very big. Unless you enjoy crawling through 24" pipes, then I'd suggest looking elsewhere.
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Probably all it is. I don't think my city has any real underground tunnels.
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shotgun mario
Location: MSP Gender: Male
MSP Elite™ Card-Carrying Member
| | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 12 on 1/12/2009 9:28 PM >
| | | yea, based on the leaves, that tunnel isn't big... but don't abandon hope! if you really want to, check it out. But I highly suggest that you continue with your attempt to drain, but just find a larger tunnel to do so. Draining is plenty fun.
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AnAppleSnail
Location: Charlotte, NC Gender: Male
ALL the flashlights!
| | | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 13 on 1/12/2009 11:32 PM >
| | | Posted by Beta
Rats don't bother me. Roaches are just soulless spawns of Satan and the malevolent creatures behind Nazism, nightmares, and The View.
Probably all it is. I don't think my city has any real underground tunnels.
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Go to you city's web site (yep, they have one) and poke around for GIS data or a storm drain inventory. Start at the down-streamiest ones and see what's what. Particularly compare a map of drain lines with a map of surface water. Where it doesn't match... Google Maps can help unless you have heavy tree cover like we do here. EDIT: Question about your stony drain. Is this lake made by a dam? At a nearby lake I found a small tunnel leading through the dam, under the lake, and into a tower that sticks about 10' above the surface of the lake. Aside from super-sketch ladders it gives access to a sweet artificial island 50' overhead. My tunnel looked a lot the same as yours. Is it a low-flow tunnel going off into a hillside with a lake on the other side of the hill? Ok, I'm rambling now, sorry. [last edit 1/12/2009 11:40 PM by AnAppleSnail - edited 1 times]
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Beta
Location: Georgia Gender: Male
Under the Gun
| | | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 14 on 1/13/2009 1:02 AM >
| | | Posted by AnAppleSnail
Go to you city's web site (yep, they have one) and poke around for GIS data or a storm drain inventory. Start at the down-streamiest ones and see what's what. Particularly compare a map of drain lines with a map of surface water. Where it doesn't match... Google Maps can help unless you have heavy tree cover like we do here. EDIT: Question about your stony drain. Is this lake made by a dam? At a nearby lake I found a small tunnel leading through the dam, under the lake, and into a tower that sticks about 10' above the surface of the lake. Aside from super-sketch ladders it gives access to a sweet artificial island 50' overhead. My tunnel looked a lot the same as yours. Is it a low-flow tunnel going off into a hillside with a lake on the other side of the hill? Ok, I'm rambling now, sorry.
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Thanks for the help! ^_^ And yeah, it is by a [small] dam. Here... let me show you...
We were standing around here when we found it. [last edit 1/13/2009 1:03 AM by Beta - edited 2 times]
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Quarantine
Location: Denver Gender: Female
retired former old-school UE'er
| | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 15 on 1/13/2009 2:14 AM >
| | | That building off to the right looks abandoned... is it? ^_^
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Rinzler
Location: New Jersey
Nomad
| | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 16 on 1/13/2009 2:34 AM >
| | | Ive been to a few storm drains or just underground tunnels. Usually they just lead into other tunnels or you reach a point where you cant fit anymore. The Gates Of Hell was good for that. There were a few tunnels i didnt go down because of flooding tho so who knows where those went. Found a few tunnels in Toms River also which just went under parking lots and came out on the other side in the woods.
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Beta
Location: Georgia Gender: Male
Under the Gun
| | | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 17 on 1/13/2009 6:18 AM >
| | | Posted by Quarantine That building off to the right looks abandoned... is it? ^_^
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It is. It's also on it's own island with the walkway smashed to hell to keep people from getting in. As you can see, the damn keeps water moving fast around it. It'll be a pain to get inside, but I'll eventually do it.
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Assistance
"Run Away! It's an... um... Run away!"
| | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 18 on 1/13/2009 6:31 AM >
| | | That Sounds ideal. I'm jealous.
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Beta
Location: Georgia Gender: Male
Under the Gun
| | | | Re: Drains, Sewers, Spelunking, how do you go about it? <Reply # 19 on 1/13/2009 6:41 AM >
| | | Posted by Assistance That Sounds ideal. I'm jealous.
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I'll share photos. I hope the place is good enough to make it worth the effort.
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