History
Plunger is a storm drain, constructed around 1977 during the development of MK. Its task (or so it would appear) is to take surface water away from the city center of Milton Keynes. It dumps to a sumped outfall from a very wide yet 7' high box section.
The Explore
Explored with @Punk and @Oort
Oort was coming up to Leicester for the weekend for our (ill-fated) 'Tunnel Party/Campout', and we thought it'd be rude not to squeeze in a few explores while he was around. So on the friday night, after a brief stop at punks house to get supplies we headed down south to MK... I'd wanted to see Plunger for a while but I never got around to it for various reasons, so I jumped at the opportunity to finally get to see it.
Upon entering we started making our way downstream to the outfall sump. After following the ~12' round pipe for a short distance it changed to a 7' square box section that lead down to the sump. This was incredibly slippy and at one point I was literally pushing my tripod along.
The sump itself. Apparently on a bright day it glows green, but our visit was at night so no chance of that.
Looking back up from the sump.
Back to the 12' round goodness...
After a fair walk we came to vortex, the first of two. After this the pipe got slightly smaller and changed in construction.
The bigger of the two
Topside. Water enters from a ~5' pipe
Finally, after reaching the end of the line, back through we went...
Plunger is a storm drain, constructed around 1977 during the development of MK. Its task (or so it would appear) is to take surface water away from the city center of Milton Keynes. It dumps to a sumped outfall from a very wide yet 7' high box section.
The Explore
Explored with @Punk and @Oort
Oort was coming up to Leicester for the weekend for our (ill-fated) 'Tunnel Party/Campout', and we thought it'd be rude not to squeeze in a few explores while he was around. So on the friday night, after a brief stop at punks house to get supplies we headed down south to MK... I'd wanted to see Plunger for a while but I never got around to it for various reasons, so I jumped at the opportunity to finally get to see it.
Upon entering we started making our way downstream to the outfall sump. After following the ~12' round pipe for a short distance it changed to a 7' square box section that lead down to the sump. This was incredibly slippy and at one point I was literally pushing my tripod along.
The sump itself. Apparently on a bright day it glows green, but our visit was at night so no chance of that.
Looking back up from the sump.
Back to the 12' round goodness...
After a fair walk we came to vortex, the first of two. After this the pipe got slightly smaller and changed in construction.
The bigger of the two
Topside. Water enters from a ~5' pipe
Finally, after reaching the end of the line, back through we went...
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Some nice shades of brown down there.
