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Fat Tony
   
Noble Donor
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 |  |  | Valve Chamber?
< on 2/13/2005 9:25 PM >
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I've done some searching around (here, google, etc), and have not been able to find a definition of "Valve Chamber". This is with respect to a campus steam tunnel network. Would I be correct in guessing that these are like... "Control Stations" where you can turn steam off and on to the various tunnels? I found a list of locations on my campus, and will probably head out and try to see what these actually are, and if they're outside accessible.
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Gatsby
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Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Like all UER people, I've only explored your mom.
| | Re: Valve Chamber?
<Reply # 1 on 2/13/2005 11:11 PM >
| | | | I've jumped down manholes that fit your attempted definition.
Don't rule out manholes!
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Xanadu
  
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| | Re: Valve Chamber?
<Reply # 2 on 2/14/2005 2:05 AM >
| | | | Sounds like intresting places.
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kowalski
 
| | Re: Valve Chamber?
<Reply # 3 on 2/14/2005 4:58 AM >
|  | | | Tony, your description sounds accurate. I hope you do have a real utility tunnel network, otherwise you may be disappointed -- the existence of valve chambers may be indicative of a ducted system where the pipes themselves are not actually human-accessible without a backhoe, with periodic valve chambers that concentrate the control valves in one place.
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Rust
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| | Re: Valve Chamber?
<Reply # 4 on 2/14/2005 6:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by crazydeep74
Sounds like intresting places.
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MacGyver
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| | Re: Valve Chamber?
<Reply # 5 on 2/17/2005 9:21 PM >
| | | | What you call a valve chamber I have more commonly seen referred to as a vault. Basically it is a little concrete room beneath a manhole with some pipes coming in one wall and going out one or more other walls. The presence of vaults almost guarantees that there is not a tunnel nearby. On the other side of the walls the pipes pass through, the pipe is buried directly in the ground.
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Fat Tony
Noble Donor
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Regina
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Valve Chamber?
<Reply # 6 on 2/18/2005 10:02 PM >
| | | | Hmmm... I ended up coming home to visit family instead of staying at school for spring break. I'll have to investigate more when I get back up. I do know that there are around 18km of tunnels beneath my school, but I'm not sure if these are in the tunnels, or if they're something else.
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