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Me and my draining friend ("Arnold") went down to Cemetary Drain today. It took us a good while to find a way in. We had big rubber boots on, but the water, like I said, looks to be over your head. We originally planned to jump onto a ledge partially submerged in water, but it just looked too far and the ledge way to narrow. Then I peered into the little sidepipe (the one pouring crap into the water), and saw light and what looked like another passage up ahead. I figured this could've been another sidepassage to Cemetary Drain, so we crawled up the small pipe, getting very wet in the process. The "side passage" turned out to be just a gutter box with fast flowing water. I climbed up the stepirons to see where we were, and dropped my maglight, breaking it (I posted about that in the Tutorials board). "Arnold" had a flashight though, so we crawled back through instead of crawling through the rest of the tiny pipe. We'd nearly given up finding a way in, until I noticed that the water was shallower all around, even at the other side. I walked in the water, keeping my balance on the slippery and shaking rocks. There was black tarp on the banks of the creek, and I figured out why the hard way. I was grabbing onto the stuff to keep my balance and I tore some of it off. Then a big ol' rock splashed into the water, screwing up my view of the bottom of the creek. I guess the tarp was holding the rocks back from falling.

Anyways, we finally got into the drain. It's a 6 feet tall rectangular pipe with kind of deep water (about angle-shin), enough that it sploshes around and gets your feet wet (of course they were already wet from getting to it). It stayed as an RCB for a while. There were some decently sized side tunnels, and the manhole shafts were of an interesting construction, brick and funnel-shaped. There was also shelf kind of things on the walls with nails sticking out. They looked like they could've been used by workers, but they were also used to block off tunnels. Then the drain got stone walls (just like Stonewall Drain), with a tar ceiling, and it started to shrink a bit (again just like Stonewall Drain). This stonewall section only lasted a bit before becoming an RCB again. After a while there was a "step" thing, which basically cut the drain's height in half. We stooped along that section for a while but it didn't show any signs of growing.

Overall, I'd give this drain a 6/10. It has cool stone walls and construction, but it ends kind of boringly and isn't too long. It also is kind of hard to get to.

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