Whaley Bridge - Toddbrook Reservoir Damage

[Ming the Merciless]

Answering my own question ... I suppose if the outflow were from the bottom of the reservoir then the water flow would be violent and somebody would have to open the sluice gates.

Now I can see the reason for those scary overflows in Ladybower!

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That's not an overflow, it's a worm hole to another Universe.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

They are like a portal to another dimension. Some poor woman got sucked into one about twenty years ago in California. Doesn't bear thinking about really.

Spoiler: Grim

https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/NORTH-BAY-Woman-Sucked-Into-Lake-Berryessa-2849821.php

I guess glory hole means something else in the USA

 

[Dave7]

Ever wondered what's down there?



Spoiler: it's a massive concrete pipe.

20 minutes well spent watching that.
I will now watch the next one.
Thanks for that.

 

[Dayvo]

20 minutes well spent watching that.
I will now watch the next one.
Thanks for that.

Yep, definitely worth watching.

He's like a mischievous Jack Hargreaves.

 

[irw]

Ever wondered what's down there?



Spoiler: it's a massive concrete pipe.

Haha, I've seen that video before....I remember thinking 'seriously?!' during the 2:30 to 4 minute bit, and finding the subsequent section so hilarious I showed Mrs. IRW, who found it equally unbelievable/funny!

 

[irw]

He's also done a shorter video of it flowing at full capacity, the best bit of which is watching him evade detection by stealthily creeping down through the undergrowth to the outflow, like a weird middle aged Yorkshire ninja.

Anyone for a game of 'Ultimate Pooh-Sticks'?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This is excellent, & ought to be the Squadron badge!!



View: https://www.facebook.com/VeteransParty/photos/a.430306127010709/2898846653489965/?type=3&theater

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Scammonden Dam is of a similar construction.

1515,760,136 gallons supporting in part the M62.

Just looked that up It's a kind of hybrid - 53,000 tonnes of clay core but supported by an embankment of 3.4 million cubic metres of rock. That shouldn't shift in a hurry, plus it has a bellmouth overflow within the reservoir, not a spillway as such, 10m below the top of the dam embankment.

They didn't have to go far, to get most of the materials, the cutting immediately to the west provided a lot of it
https://www.ice.org.uk/what-is-civil-engineering/what-do-civil-engineers-do/m62-and-scammonden-dam

http://motorwayarchive.ihtservices.co.uk/m62bounpole.htm

http://motorwayarchive.ihtservices.co.uk/m62bounpole.htm

 

[ColinJ]

And here's a video about it!



I was looking for another one that showed how awful the Pennine winters were when the motorway was being built.

 

[classic33]

 

[winjim]

Haha, I've seen that video before....I remember thinking 'seriously?!' during the 2:30 to 4 minute bit, and finding the subsequent section so hilarious I showed Mrs. IRW, who found it equally unbelievable/funny!

I can't remember how I came across it, just appeared on facebook I think. I'll have to watch some of his videos about the Sheffield culverts and the Megatron.

I have a few caver type friends who have been down and explored it, but interestingly, I just noticed that they're currently doing guided tours of the Megatron. Might be worth a go although I'm not sure I could take the four year old.

https://www.rmcmedia.co.uk/vibe/movers-and-makers/article/Megatron-tours-going-down-a-storm-drain

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

And here's a video about it!

I was looking for another one that showed how awful the Pennine winters were when the motorway was being built.

Still not sure if it was an urban myth, or more probably a rural-myth, that the carriageway was going to be heated in winter
Given the state of the nation in the early 70's, we'd probably not have had the spare generating power for it!!


I remember watching this, back in the day

Two Range Rovers v jack-knifed artic @ 37:00!
(in the dry, it'd be no problem at all)


Watch from about 44:00

Especially watch from 49:00, when one driver has his idiocy explained to him
Nowadays, that would result in a complaint against the Officer



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvw9DNQWymo

 

[classic33]

Still not sure if it was an urban myth, or more probably a rural-myth, that the carriageway was going to be heated in winter
Given the state of the nation in the early 70's, we'd probably not have had the spare generating power for it!!


I remember watching this, back in the day

Two Range Rovers v jack-knifed artic @ 37:00!
(in the dry, it'd be no problem at all)


Watch from about 44:00

Especially watch from 49:00, when one driver has his idiocy explained to him
Nowadays, that would result in a complaint against the Officer



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvw9DNQWymo

Windbreaks and/or an enclosed section over the Pennines was considered. The wind break idea surface earlier this century, and at least once more since.

Dropped initially due to the 'Little House on The Prairie.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Windbreaks and/or an enclosed section over the Pennines was considered. The wind break idea surface earlier this century, and at least once more since.

Dropped initially due to the 'Little House on The Prairie.

I'm sure there's still a few 'sleeper fences' (snow fences) in places

 

[classic33]

I'm sure there's still a few 'sleeper fences' (snow fences) in places

Any that are, won't be as part of the motorway. There were some near the "No Hope Bridge", but they were kept as shelter for the animals.

The ones that were planned for the open sections were over 40 foot high.