So myself and @Jobbyjo decided that we should visit a place I have been eyeing for some time. We were only going there to check out some pins in the hope of finding something a little bit less lack luster than Leicester has to offer. So after checking out some other pins, including some questionable ducking and diving of natures very own barbed wire and pretty darn tight infall and outfalls. We got to this one, saw the size of the 3m RCP behind the grill and decided it would be rather rude not to at least have a look inside this beast for it can only get bigger downstream.
We were unsure whilst exploring this one as to if it had been done before... after a few messages Silogen gets back to me to let me know that this was one of his from a good number of years back.
I as per usual got lazy with the camera so most of these where under exposed... the fact I even had it with me still astonishes me.
This starts out as a 3M RCP stuck behind a rather large grill structure...
(Measurements here could be way off, most concrete structures have the sizes printed, but these did not).
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Eventually we hit a bit of a shape change into a concrete arch so I do question if there must be some large structure above it...
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It was a fair trek from the infall to this junction, but this chamber is pretty darn big and impressive. the upstream 3M RCP that we where walking into intercepts 3 RCPs, 2 of those around 2M RCP and then a 750mm outfalling into a pretty fucking large 5M RCP... .
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And it is the next photo where we turn back, not knowing at this point how far to the outfall we had to go and knowing the walk back would be against the flow, not having waders and the water in areas was creeping up to waist height, getting quite foggy and no gas meter, we will be back. The 5M RCP turning into twin 3M RCPs
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And a couple of shots of us for the sake of it. Thanks for the giggles Jo, brilliant explore.
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We were unsure whilst exploring this one as to if it had been done before... after a few messages Silogen gets back to me to let me know that this was one of his from a good number of years back.
I as per usual got lazy with the camera so most of these where under exposed... the fact I even had it with me still astonishes me.
This starts out as a 3M RCP stuck behind a rather large grill structure...
(Measurements here could be way off, most concrete structures have the sizes printed, but these did not).
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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Eventually we hit a bit of a shape change into a concrete arch so I do question if there must be some large structure above it...
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8.
It was a fair trek from the infall to this junction, but this chamber is pretty darn big and impressive. the upstream 3M RCP that we where walking into intercepts 3 RCPs, 2 of those around 2M RCP and then a 750mm outfalling into a pretty fucking large 5M RCP... .
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And it is the next photo where we turn back, not knowing at this point how far to the outfall we had to go and knowing the walk back would be against the flow, not having waders and the water in areas was creeping up to waist height, getting quite foggy and no gas meter, we will be back. The 5M RCP turning into twin 3M RCPs
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And a couple of shots of us for the sake of it. Thanks for the giggles Jo, brilliant explore.
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