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BenCooper wrote:Thank you
That's really odd - I was sure it went out the outfall under the High Court, but it looks like that's a sewer overflow or something, doesn't it? On old maps, the High Court ourflow matches up with the old position of the stream, but I guess they must have realigned it.
BenCooper wrote:Oh look, I was pretty much bang on
Does your plan show where the upstream tunnel splits into two tunnels? That's as far as I got upstream, and it'd be nice to know where this is.
BenCooper wrote:It definitely doesn't flow under the Necropolis- it goes right down Wishart Street. It does seem to loop under the brewery - it's hard to measure angles and distances underground, but I'd estimate that it loops about as far as a line drawn from Hunter Street.
At the top of the loop is a blocked-off inlet - a waste outlet from the brewery?
BenCooper wrote:Cheers Alan
It's certainly an interesting trip - I'm not sure how far I got, but at least up to Alexandra Parade I think. Some old maps show the stream plit in two, which matches what I found.
Glesga_Steve wrote:BenCooper wrote:It definitely doesn't flow under the Necropolis- it goes right down Wishart Street. It does seem to loop under the brewery - it's hard to measure angles and distances underground, but I'd estimate that it loops about as far as a line drawn from Hunter Street.
At the top of the loop is a blocked-off inlet - a waste outlet from the brewery?
Before my time (or at least before my working life began), there used to be a outlet to the culvert from a CSO (combined sewer overflow) on the Garngad trunk sewer that runs generally parallel to it within Tennent's Brewery. The CSO was abandoned at some time but I'm not sure exactly when or how it was abandoned - it's possible the photo has something to do with the connection from the old CSO.
Another theory... I'm pretty sure I found a plan in our work archive (years ago so my memory of it isn't great) that indicated the site of a partial collapse (again before my working life) on a section of the culvert within the brewery - maybe the photo is related to some repair work that was undertaken.
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