10 Bucks Worth.

Rating:Updated 22nd June 2003

Mongo got a few hints on this drain from a friend so we decided to head out there. After doing a couple of other drains on the way we drive to the general vicinity of this drain and spotted it off the side of the road almost straight away. We parked (if you could call it that) by some road making machinery and went down to the drain. It was very obvious that to enter it we'd have to get our shoes wet. That sucks. So I hunted around for a stick to clear away litter from the grilles in the big gross pollution trap and immediately found a nice crisp $10 note. Wahoo! I love plastic polymer money.

We proceeded to clear away more junk in the grille, thus lowering the level of the water but did not find any more money.

This drain was a nice BIG double square concrete drain, a major difference from those boring 6ft drains throughout Urbana. After the water level dropped we proceeded on in. Just about 100 metres in we came to a HUGE chamber which is probably the biggest in Urbana, bigger even than the Temple of Doom in Secret Squirrels. It also had a nice skylight and three pipes leading off. In the tradition of Secret Squirrels we took the one on the left first. About another 100 metres and we came to a very nice grille room, which had a very un-nice manhole which we later discovered was concreted shut on the outside.

This is the first drain I used my new GPS receiver to plot the location of the entrance and exit.

The other two pipes we explored were almost featureless and had no exits as they seemed to run under a major road.

The drain entrance and the pit where I found the $10 that gave the drain it's name.

You come to a chamber with 3 exits. Head left. Note the faces in the drain entrances.

You arrive at a large grille room with 3 pipes. All below 5 ft. Head up.

You encounter a bastard of a manhole that won't open. Go back to main chamber

You look back down the pipes you entered the drain through.

Main chamber pipes

We give the drain a name.

Once again well feel it is prudent to warn you that this web site is not intended to encourage you to explore drains. The exploration of drains by inexperienced people may lead to death and injury.

Do NOT enter drains. Read this warning!

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