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Stairway to Paradise
The “Stairway to Paradise” is an approximately 2km long drain that runs downhill from near the basin of the Chedoke Falls, to a small creek that runs parallel to the 403. It’s most interesting feature...
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CSO Overflow / The Wall of Anguish
The CSO overflow drain begins as a roughly 20×200 ft. chamber mounted to the top of the vastly larger CSO (Combined Sewage Overflow) Tank. Should, for some extreme reason, the CSO tank become full,...
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Chedoke Falls Drain – Revisited
I was introducing a new person to our activities, and so I decided to revisit a drain I didn’t have much opportunity to explore properly on the first trip: the Chedoke Falls Drain. Remembering that it...
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The Duke of Wellington
The Duke of Wellington has been a fascination of mine ever since I first read about it. Constructed in 1922, largely out of brick, this tunnel connects the original downtown core of Hamilton with an...
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CSO Pump Room
The CSO Pump Room visit was a first for us, as it’s the only drain here that hasn’t (to my knowledge) been explored by Kowalski. We first supposed at its existence when we encountered the CSO tank for...
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The Catacombs of Paris – Pt. 1
This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Catacombs The quarries underneath Paris date back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; the limestone from which was used to build the majority of the larger...
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The Catacombs of Paris – Pt. 2
This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Catacombs Sophie and Lawrence followed, and then I did the same, with Sebastien bringing up the rear. Once inside, I found myself crouched in a small damp...
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This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Catacombs We sat in a circle around the small table and, as if by magic, there appeared a selection of mixed nuts, baguettes, fruits, beer and wine. The lantern...
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The Catacombs of Paris – Pt. 4
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Catacombs We came to the entrance to the bunker, which turned out to be a small hole in the passage wall, about shoulder’s breadth in width, and at the height of...
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The Catacombs of Paris – Pt. 5
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Catacombs Ten minutes later, I stood in three inches of sewage, looking up a manhole shaft that rose three stories above my head. Some of the ladder rungs...
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