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Wet Nightmares


Drain type: A brief RCP run to a very wet place.
Year: Unknown.
Region: The outskirts of residential Barrie.
Drain accessibility: Quite easy at the downstream end, but making it into any pipe past the first chamber is a bit of a challenge.
Drain exitability: Back the way you came, at least as far as we went.
Traversability: Just fine up to the first chamber, where it falls off drastically.
Interesting features: Lots of water. Look, we only went to the first chamber, okay? Oh yeah, there's also a really weird pollutant trap-type-thing in a reservoir upstream.
Hazards: Getting damn well soaked (we did).
Recommendation: Don't do it. Especially if it's below zero out and the car is a long way away (it was -_- ).

Wet and Miserable in Fifteen Below
February, 2002
Wet Nightmares has a brief photo gallery.

One extremely cold winter night, Asher, Dain Bramaged, Grebin, Filter Boy and myself decided to go scout for drains in the south end of Barrie. This was, in retrospect, not the wisest decision we could have made, but we had a severe lack of anything else to do at the time.
We found a few unexceptional drains in this fashion, mostly in a nearby reservoir. One of the most interesting things we came across was a creepy sort of separator-type structure rising out of the water. Naturally, we climbed up on top of it and took pictures...

Looking down into the scary gross pollutant trap. After we left the reservoir we went downstream of this pollutant trap, across a road and down to a riverbank, where we were overjoyed to find a rather large pipe pouring out a good deal of water. We all climbed in and began walking the short distance to the first chamber, which was the end of the line for us -- there were half a dozen pipes at various angles and heights, all pouring a copious volume of water into the room. There was literally not a single dry spot to stand, which explains why we didn't really get many photos of this chamber. Grebin pulled himself up into one of the bigger pipes and ran it a ways, but came back and told us that there was nothing to see, so we bailed -- out into the winter night, all of us dripping wet. Hooray!
In conclusion, this was a very wet drain that hurt us very badly and it should be avoided.
Now, go see the quick 'n dirty image gallery if you feel so inclined.

-Snee

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