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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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Westdale Coves
Westdale Secondary School was opened in 1931, with a beautiful classically styled auditorium in the center of the school. Unfortunately, a series of major renovations buried the original auditorium...
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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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Toronto Belt Line
Gargantua We arrived in Toronto with the intent to visit Gargantua, a massive 4.8m drain, supposedly the largest in Ontario. We found a few probable manholes, but all of them were frozen shut....
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The Cathedral
"A view inside one of the tanks does not say good things about their capacity" I’ve had a fascination obsession with Cathedral Park since we first started poking around in the storm drains of...
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Greenhill CSO
A blueprint of the facility overlaid on an aerial photograph Similar to the Cathedral, the Greenhill CSO tanks are designed as a storage mechanism for the Woodward Ave waste water treatment plant. The...
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The Duke – Visit 2
This time with better lighting: The amount of filth flowing (untreated) into Hamilton Harbor is appalling.
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