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Swift Lift


Drain type: RCP, under construction at the time of this visit.
Year: 2002
Region: North East Barrie.
Drain accessibility: Quite accessible at the moment, we are not sure how much construction is yet to be done.
Drain exitability: Same as the aforementioned -- it was wide open at both ends when we went.
Traversability: It is a crouching pipe, not very long, and all the manhole chambers were only partially buried and didn't actually have covers yet.
Interesting features: It's under construction, a fetal drain.
Hazards: There really weren't any, other than the normal drain dangers.
Recommendation: Not worth your time or effort.

The Fetal Drain Excursion
Check out the mediocre Swift Lift photo gallery.

The mouth of
the drain, which won't be the mouth for long, or something. One day when I was taking Flameout to work I noticed that there was some development goin' on, I said to Flameout "We should watch this area, they will probably drop drains soon". On my way home I noticed that there was a truck in the field loaded with drains, so I began to plan an excursion. That night Grebin, Filter Boy, Dain Bramaged, Flameout and myself went to the development site. We found that there was a short section of storm drains laid and another few sections that were not. So, after playing around on the un-laid pipes we climbed down into the vast pit where the storms were partially buried. Flameout and Grebin went into the drain while Filter Boy, Dain Bramaged, and myself walked along top. After a short walk in the bitterly cold winter night we came to an open manhole -- I mean open in the sense that it was only a concrete chamber, without an actual manhole cover. It was there that Dain, Filter Boy and I jumped in. The drain itself was a rather bland RCP, no graffiti or anything. However, it had no water table, as well as no manholes/bars or other drainer death traps. After a quick run we came out the end of the drain, we took a look around for any other prospective drains, but found nothing. So back through the drain we went -- you see it was warmer underground than above. Once we reached the other end of the aforementioned drain we clambered back out of the pit and scrambled across the field to a large chunk of a drain. This section was a manhole/pipe thingy, as they are known. Anyhow, it looked like a concrete submarine -- to us anyway. After we were done playing around we made our way back to the car and such ended the journey through our first incomplete drain. Naturally, the concrete submarine and other joys are in the Swift Lift photo gallery.

- Asher

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