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 RevSM
  
Location: South Central Texas
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< on 8/26/2003 10:19 PM >
|  | | | SUV: Drain exploration: Congress Ave. Tunnels
New update to Suburban Underground Vadders: Dropkick and I did a little draining in Austin. This one is a tunnel that follows Congress Ave. towards the capital. Check it!
http://suv.topcities.com/congressave.htm
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: SUV: Drain exploration: Congress Ave. Tunnels
<Reply # 1 on 8/26/2003 11:13 PM >
| | | | nice find.
Along the way we saw only a few interesting landmarks such as pipes running out of one side of the tunnel and into the other. Wouldn’t make any sense but they looked like electrical pipes or possibly sewage. These pipes did not open into the tunnel, they only went from one side to the other.
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I've seen pipes like this before when I was in a very shallow-level drain. They were water mains for the buildings above and to the side of where the tunnel ran.
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Noah Vale
 
Location: Portland, Or
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| |  | | Re: SUV: Drain exploration: Congress Ave. Tunnels
<Reply # 3 on 8/27/2003 2:05 AM >
| | | | Cool. You would think that tunnel would be secured considering it runs so close to the Capitol building. I've found some tunnels here I'm gonna try my hand at this weekend. Hope my time goes more like yours than like Jester's. 
[last edit 8/26/2003 9:06 PM by Noah Vale - edited 1 times]
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: SUV: Drain exploration: Congress Ave. Tunnels
<Reply # 4 on 8/27/2003 2:11 AM >
| | | | I honestly didn't mind the fall into the water, since it wasn't filled with human wastes it was fine... And it did cause a break in the mind numbing boredom...
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RevSM
Location: South Central Texas
| | | Re: SUV: Drain exploration: Congress Ave. Tunnels
<Reply # 5 on 8/27/2003 6:58 AM >
| | | | Hey thanks guys. I haven't noticed any kind of extra security but I don't know how far it goes. Congress Avenue ends right at the front gates of the capitol but that's still something like 100 Yards or more before you get to the capitol's front door.
Krazy, you very well could be right, at least some of those pipes could have been water main pipes but not all of them. Should have got some pics of them, maybe next time.
I want to see how far this tunnel really goes. After looking at mapquest it looks like Congress Avenue goes ¾ of a mile before it gets to the capitol. That’s still a long way to walk in a round pipe. I need to get some rubber boots and try again.
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: SUV: Drain exploration: Congress Ave. Tunnels
<Reply # 6 on 8/27/2003 4:08 PM >
| | | | Posted by RevSM
That’s still a long way to walk in a round pipe. I need to get some rubber boots and try again.
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You might try this too.  If the pipe is big enough (6 feet diameter just barely works for me), then drainwalking/running can get you there faster than straddling the stream. Rubber boots will also get you there. I prefer the good old Australian-invented method just for the fun of it though.
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