Chisel Ma Nizzle Sewer, Manchester
Yes it's another of Manchester's festering sewers, this one was no exception
First discovered by Stepping Lightly and aptly named by Sneaky boy back in the day, this place had been on the 'to-do list' for a while now
The drain, a sewer overflow primarily which outfalls into the River Irwell
Located 30ft underground and intercepting the main trunk under Deansgate, the overflow continues up towards Market St. except it has been bricked with a smaller clay pipe passing through and walking any further was impossible
Access as via a short abseil down the river bank, but be warned it's full of shite, literally and prob not worth the effort!
Once down the oval brick pipe is a sizeable 1.8M, but seemed to be outputting fresh straight into the Irwell
It hadn't been raining and as I continued up the pipe there was raw sewage, thats right poop and bog roll floating down and lots of it, now correct me if I'm wrong but surely that is illegal - in the sense that raw sewer should only enter a water course when the drains flood
With a leaky wellie I had no choice but to embrace the shite, the drain itself was pretty cool, despite it's grim contents
The turds were streaming down this smaller sewer and down the overflow
Further up, another chamber with some small penstock controls
As we neared the bricked-up section approx 240ft from the Outfall, the air quality was poor, I only grabbed a few shots before GTFO as I didn't fancy being stuck in here
Once out we headed over to Cathedral Gardens to wash the turds off our wellies & waterproofs...
@£500,000 it had to be put to some use
