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UER Forum > Archived US: Southeast > draining (Viewed 470 times) cod3  Location: Atlanta, GA Gender: Male Standfast  |  |  draining < on 12/27/2005 10:34 PM >   hello all, so i'm having real problems finding decent sized drains round where i live, here are some examples of a/b the size we keep finding. well, nvrmind, i have some pictures, but i'm not sure how to get them small enuff to upload. anyway, the drains are not big, probly a/b 3'6'' - 4' in diameter. so my question is where shuld i be looking for decent sized drains??? comments appreciated, cod3 Illegal doesn't always mean immoral. J Marcs  Location: Ohio Gender: Male  |  |  |  Re: draining <Reply # 1 on 12/28/2005 12:48 AM >   Access All Areas (book by Ninjalicious) has a great passage on finding drains. Pick up a copy... It's worth the $20. Drains have to let out somewhere, and that place is usually a natural body of water. I use Google earth and terra server and start at rivers/creeks/lakes. If no obvious drains show up at the actual river or lake, I follow ditches and smaller streams inland. If they end all of a sudden... its probably a drain. Finding drains is half the fun in my opinion. Below are some examples of what drains look like in aerial photos. DjMalign  Location: Fort Collins, CO Gender: Male Sexy, sexy, sexy  |  |  Re: draining <Reply # 2 on 12/28/2005 4:38 AM >   Posted by cod3 hello all, so i'm having real problems finding decent sized drains round where i live, here are some examples of a/b the size we keep finding. well, nvrmind, i have some pictures, but i'm not sure how to get them small enuff to upload. anyway, the drains are not big, probly a/b 3'6'' - 4' in diameter. so my question is where shuld i be looking for decent sized drains??? comments appreciated, cod3 the problems with drains in atlanta is that they're small as hell due to an old system. they're putting in new stuff around town but most of it is REAL hard to find. There's a decent drain system with a giant weir near piedmont park. look beyond the dog run I hate all of you maxt  Location: Tampa Bay, FL Gender: Male RAR!  |  Re: draining <Reply # 3 on 12/28/2005 4:42 PM >   Yeah we have the same problem down here. One or two walkable drains, but most are only 2 or 3 foot RCP. And this definately shows when it rains, as streets flood very regularly. They are currently drawing up plans for some Y100 drainage, but the only construction contracts I've seen so far are for new water mains around downtown. I'm branching out my searches though, so hopefully something will turn up soon. J Marcs  Location: Ohio Gender: Male  |  |  |  Re: draining <Reply # 4 on 12/29/2005 2:15 AM >   Posted by DjMalign the problems with drains in atlanta is that they're small as hell due to an old system. they're putting in new stuff around town but most of it is REAL hard to find. There's a decent drain system with a giant weir near piedmont park. look beyond the dog run Same thing troubled me here... but piped/covered creeks seemed to be the answer. They are bigger and cleaner than the storm sewers. There are a lot less decent drains here than in other areas, but with a lot of research I have found a few. cod3  Location: Atlanta, GA Gender: Male Standfast  |  |  Re: draining <Reply # 5 on 12/31/2005 2:12 AM >   ok, i will definitely check the one out by piedmont park. and i guess google earth my be a good thing to invest in as well. thanks for the tips. also, i'm not sure if anyone is familiar w/ noonday park, but its a soccer/football complex that has a water refining facility next door. i havnt taken a trip there to pop manholes, but is this the right kind of place to be looking? ooo, and i guess my little bit of input will be a/b the chattahoochee storm drain. http://water.cobbc...cip.htm#chattunnel not sure if its finished yet, i just kinda skimmed the little excerpt. Illegal doesn't always mean immoral. CMH  Gender: Male  |  Re: draining <Reply # 6 on 12/31/2005 6:13 PM >   I've been to ATL several times in search of drains. I'm relieved to see that I'm not the only one not finding jack. I do have a lead though: At 10th street, just west of the interstate is a college dorm (near 10th/Holly iThink). Just look in some of the grates around there, big rooms and 5-6ft tunnels. I popped one last summer after many fruitless hours of searching. I climbed down rungs, and then jumped down through a hole into the tunnel... it was three parallel 6-foot RCPs. There were some random small tunnels emptying from rainslots and grates. The tunnels were going toward the interstate a few hundred meters to the east. Naturally I'm thinking "jackpot". Maybe 100-150 meters in and they end at the same area, a square room. To the front is a small concrete wall, and on the other side these three 6-foot tunnels shrink to a 2.5 foot or so (if that) tunnel. It was too small for me to even go on hands and knees. I went maybe 50 meters down it to the next area (yes it sucked), and it just kept rolling toward the interstate. I decided to go back with a few friends and a skateboard, but it never happened. I couldn't get out the way I came, so I just popped a blind manhole in the system. As luck would have it, some nerdy looking college guy was walking by with an armful of books just as I heaved the thing from its plug. I'm filthy, with a camera and 1m candlepower lantern hanging from my neck and a headlamp on my head, and I just go "hey what's up?". He looked like his eyes were about to fall out and he walked briskly away. I suspect that it might lead to a large tunnel under the interstate which might empty into some of those creeks to the north. I checked some of them and didn't find any outfalls, but there was a lot I couldn't get to also. I didn't find any drains in that part of downtown, and the interstate looked like it was recessed to me, so this is a real possibility. Other than that, I'm not sure where this goes. I think maybe they put in those 3 tunnels because they knew that small one couldn't handle the flow from new drains and they wanted some space for water to backup before it just overflowed. Or maybe I'm wrong about everything. "It's funnier that way." Scaggs  Gender: Male  |  Re: draining <Reply # 7 on 1/2/2006 3:18 PM >   Atlanta has its drains and tunnels, you just have to look hard and do your research. The thing to keep in mind about Northern cities versus Southern cities is that in the North, they usually have larger drainage systems due to snow accumulation. Here in the South, since it rarely snows, the precipitation reaches it final watershed destination within a reasonable 24-48 hour period. In the North, the snow accumulates over a 5-7 month period(depending on where you live) and then drains all at once after the weather begins to warm up, so you need a system that can deal with massive quantities of drainage. But Atlanta, being one of the largest and oldest Southern cities definitely has stuff underground, you just have to look. The City Planning Commission is a good place to start, as well as the local history room of your local library. UER Forum > Archived US: Southeast > draining (Viewed 470 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 203 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 740907204 pages have been generated.