For over four years now, myself along with many others have stooped, stomped and slipped under and across london’s bowels, through sewage, grease, fat and mystery content “X”, always wondering what the next bend had to bring. Our deep fascination with the history that Victorian sewers had to offer encouraging us to brave even the most poopiest of pipes. But what happens when the sewer is less then a year old, holds no immediate constructional intrigue and has a historical value of 0. What then is left to tempt the bright eye’ d traveller into its depths?

I hated Strata, each time we ventured into London it smirked at us as we drove by. Every attempt to climb it ended with the same wailing siren of ‘You Lose’. Over the years the furthest i had made it was the ninth floor when situations out of my control had forced us to leave. No more, tonight we would reach the top, dragging the entire security team at our feet if we had to!

When it comes to massive drains Niagara really takes a lot to beat. The now defunct power generating infrastructure that once littered the area has given way to a multitude of tunnels and tailraces that on their own easily justify a trip to Canada. Tonight we planned on visiting one of those tunnels. The William B. Rankine Generating Station Tailrace.

So here we have our next drain of the trip, Humble Howard. Not much to say about this one really, which is surprising given its size. Waders on, onwards to the steaming manhole.

We sat at the metro stop, totally exhausted from the night’s activities and a day of being lame tourists. I felt like spreading out a nearby paper and going to sleep right there, but we had one more goal to achieve, the Williamsburg bridge.

Lets face it, if your here chances are you already know or have heard of ”Confluence” aka, The Niagara Tailraces or The Supervillian Hideout. As such i don’t feel the need to go into the history, its already posted elsewhere and in greater detail then i ever could. If however history is your bag then the links at the bottom of the page will provide ample information to get you off.