Report - Ventor, Rochdale - January 2017

[moako]

Ventor is a combined sewer overflow near Rochdale with a stone and brick outfall to the River Roch.

Just a few metres in is a large concrete chamber. Straight ahead is a section of RCP which leads to a processing room.

To the right of the chamber is a rectangular tunnel leading to a ventilated overflow chamber.

The interceptor sewer viewed from surface level.

The processing room is situated immediately upstream.

Brick outfall pipe.

 

[Xan_Asmodi]

Nice one, dude! Good to see some local fresh stuff!

 

[pastybarm]

Bit of a different setup here from other CSOs in greater manc/the NW, never seen a chamber with vents like that, at first I thought it would lead just to the processor, and a pumping station. Was the brick/stone pipe part of the original sewer system presumably, and the processor and ventor chamber serving as an interceptor? From the outfall, looks as though it overflows quite a bit still....some bog roll is visible and quite a high tide mark in the chamber

 

[moako]

Bit of a different setup here from other CSOs in greater manc/the NW, never seen a chamber with vents like that, at first I thought it would lead just to the processor, and a pumping station. Was the brick/stone pipe part of the original sewer system presumably, and the processor and ventor chamber serving as an interceptor? From the outfall, looks as though it overflows quite a bit still....some bog roll is visible and quite a high tide mark in the chamber

I don't know the history of this CSO but I would assume that the brick outfall would have at one time served an older overflow chamber which has since been replaced by the 2 existing chambers.

 

[moako]

Bit of a different setup here from other CSOs in greater manc/the NW, never seen a chamber with vents like that, at first I thought it would lead just to the processor, and a pumping station. Was the brick/stone pipe part of the original sewer system presumably, and the processor and ventor chamber serving as an interceptor? From the outfall, looks as though it overflows quite a bit still....some bog roll is visible and quite a high tide mark in the chamber

I don't know the history of this CSO but I would assume that the brick outfall would have at one time served an older overflow chamber which has since been replaced by the 2 existing chambers.

 

[pastybarm]

Thanks for the reply mate. Yeap, there is scant info by googling this one, so I agree with what you say, the older brick overflow chamber has been replaced by the newer concrete works.There is however plenty of other info about rochdale UID's on another site.