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Report - North Brook Culvert, Exeter - 2014

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Oxygen Thief

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A section of this was originally reported by Styru in 2013...

The only snippet of history I could find, is that it was locally named Shit Brook, ie open sewer. In parts it still smells fresh so nothing seems to have changed really. There's also a few sections where the construction seems to reinforce this, with a central channel typically used for these purposes.

The culvert is in 4 sections, it seems. The Southern section explored by Styru, a Central section, a section so small it's not worth mentioning, and a Northern section.

The first explore was the Southern section, with Styru and The Queen...

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Sewer overflow chamber...

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and the sewer itself, taken from next to the screen machine thing...


and at the other end of the culvert...

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So a few weeks later Styru and myself went back to do the Central section...

This is some of the construction I thought was particularly old...

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Don't know what this was...

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You can't really tell, but this was quite a steep slope with handholds...

Me lighting it up...

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Styru lighting me up...

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I love this shot...

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This section was notable by the number of different constructions, quite visible here...

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It was dark when we got out...

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Finally I went to see the Northern section. A very stoopy concrete pipe grated at one end, and stinking of fresh at the other, with nice grey-brown effluent froth, so I gave that a miss for being fetid and backbreaking.
 

Ojay

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An interesting mix of construction down there, Central section not worth a look in ?

That stretch of sewer looks like 5' RCP at best, any older bits on the system ?
 

Ojay

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Don't know what this was...

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Looks like an older (dis-used) sewer, often these were conveyed through cast iron pipes, but have long since been diverted down VC/RCP in latter years
 
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