Dry weather trips?

royfellows

royfellows

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Dont forget that when passages were blasted out they had to be 're-dialled' afterwards. This meant making the floor up with waste to give the desired gradient for drainage, between 1 in 90 and 1 in 120. So it was usual practice to leave a sort of 'ditch' on the one side to keep the main floor drained. This explains why often when wading through a mine passage the water is slightly deeper on one side than the other.
 
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Inferus

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pwhole said:
Pete K said:
Anyone know if P8 or Merlin sumps are open?
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We got to Sump 7 in 2010 totally dry, so it might be worth a look.
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As per post above, on June 27th we got to Merlin 5. Sump 1&2 were dry, sump 4 was a damp crawl, in other words: just able to keep head dry with helmet on.
Sump 5, having never been before I've no idea.. there was what looked like a crawl in water for quite a few metres to what looked very much like a sump. Going on the look of it we didn't bother entering.. :confused:

The arch sump out of sump pool chamber was also completely dry.
 
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