After checking out Flushed Away with @concreteJungle in the summer, it would have been wrong not to have paid a quick visit to the nearby underground tourist attraction that is Arghi Barghi. Named after the large furniture shop close to the culvert outfall.
It’s nothing particularly amazing but a nice easy subterranean mooch save for the climbing of a small waterfall just downstream from the infall.
Photos are in the order of upstream to downstream with a few shots looking back from the direction of travel.
To the west a small stream joins the river and next to this is a pair of grilled sewer overflows heavily encrusted with wet wipes and jamrags. Judging by the size of these overflows there must be a reasonably sized CSO chamber close by that is still waiting to be explored.
How this compares to Flushed Away is still unknown, but these twin overflows are not much smaller.
It would have been much more helpful if the ladder you can see was located behind the grille rather than in front of it!
The culvert downstream from this point is a quite a bit longer than the first section and soon passes below the railway station.
Despite what is painted on the bridge carrying the road called ‘Waters Green’, the water is not very deep, at least during regular dry weather flows.
Before long we reach the outfall which emerges below the Silk Road next to the railway line which appears to a popular place for loiterers to congregate.
It’s nothing particularly amazing but a nice easy subterranean mooch save for the climbing of a small waterfall just downstream from the infall.
Photos are in the order of upstream to downstream with a few shots looking back from the direction of travel.
To the west a small stream joins the river and next to this is a pair of grilled sewer overflows heavily encrusted with wet wipes and jamrags. Judging by the size of these overflows there must be a reasonably sized CSO chamber close by that is still waiting to be explored.
How this compares to Flushed Away is still unknown, but these twin overflows are not much smaller.
It would have been much more helpful if the ladder you can see was located behind the grille rather than in front of it!
The culvert downstream from this point is a quite a bit longer than the first section and soon passes below the railway station.
Despite what is painted on the bridge carrying the road called ‘Waters Green’, the water is not very deep, at least during regular dry weather flows.
Before long we reach the outfall which emerges below the Silk Road next to the railway line which appears to a popular place for loiterers to congregate.
