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Location: Colorado Springs Gender: Neither Total Likes: 35 likes
| | | Re: How does one find drains? < Reply # 9 on 2/27/2023 7:36 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Everyone else here has posted some stellar advice, but I will add a bit! Bike paths are your friend. Often these run near bodies of water or canals that have explorable outfalls. I've probably found more drains by keeping my eyes peeled while biking than any other time. I don't see a lot of folks mention this but it's been the single biggest way I've found spots to explore! Plus, a bike is small enough to take into the drain with you, should you be impatient like me and not want to walk back to the spot later. In the same vein, keep a good lookout when driving! Sometimes there are massive canals and drain openings that just get overlooked, especially in areas where a lot of overpasses exist, in my experience. As others have mentioned, google maps is your friend! Arc GIS maps are even better. As for some general draining advice– always mind the weather, as others have said. Always have backup batteries for your lights! And I highly recommend a waterproof case for your phone if it's coming with you, that's saved my ass on several occasions. I recommend bringing water, especially if you're doing a lot of crouching, you can get dehydrated pretty fast. And always pay attention to where you're going... "slides" can be pretty dangerous and if you slip down one that you can't climb back up, you're going to have to find a different way out of that drain system. And sometimes they have very deep water right at the base...
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| | | Re: How does one find drains? < Reply # 16 on 4/24/2023 7:59 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Aran All that water has to go somewhere, so I find it easiest to look for outfalls and work backwards from there. Trawl Google Maps for drainage ponds, lakeshores, and riverbanks and see if you can spot the outfall from there. Then, if your city has GIS maps of the storm drain system publicly available (many cities do), you can just find the outfall on the GIS maps and work backwards to find manholes and junction rooms.
| I can't stress this enough. A lot of cities/counties GIS Data is public, and you can, at least in King County, Washington find a map overlay with every manhole location, along with the storm drains, CSO outflows, and processing facilities. If you spend a couple hours digging through really crunchy websites and in some cases have the right software, you can get somewhere! I'm working on a fairly complicated map for some of my PNW buddies right now, but check out a service called ARCGIS. A good portion of public utilities host their maps through it, and just the storm-water utility point layer is gold. It's wise sometimes to download this stuff, because I'm pretty sure the Superfund index got taken down because of some idiots talking about it too much. Google earth can also be a bit more helpful as sometimes the higher res and 3d makes it a bit easier to find stuff.
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