Pulling the plug

[jakeXT]

Swallowing gallons of water every second, is this Britain's biggest plughole?

These stunning images show the overflow plug at picturesque Lady Bower Reservoir, in Derbyshire, in full-effect.

Photographer David Zdanowicz took the artistic pictures on Saturday.

They show water cascading into the hole, while the rest of the reservoir is serene.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wat-er-spectacular-sight-stunning-7255212

[MADem]

1. They are often fully exposed when there's not an abundance of water in the reservoir.

Here's another view, another time:

[hunter]

2. My dad took me to see the hole in the lake in California when I was a kid.

http://www.fogonazos.es/2007/02/largest-drain-hole-ever.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello_Dam

I still occasionally have nightmares about the thing.

I've seen the Ladybower in operation too.

[MADem]

3. Really! Be good, or you'll be tossed down the drain!!!

[NV Whino]

4. It hasn't looked like that for years

I'll have to get over there after the current storm and see if the reservoir is up to that level again.

[Boxerfan]

5. Lake Berryessa-I skateboarded in that tunnel!!

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Long ago in a life far away...

Edit -this is in response to the CA lake spillover tube.

Road trip to a "Pipeline" to skate...
Had to swim with the boards etc. across to the opening at the base of the damn.

It was huge inside-about a 30' diameter. I was with a friend who was a god given expert on anything with wheels. He managed to get well past the 1/2 way point to get "over vertical". It was a big deal back then. But I never skated that well. I just had a vehicle & a trunk full of boards.


Nowadays? Lucky to be walking & able to swing a metal detector.

I did not age well after a life well lived-in that I bounced far too many times & am now paying the price.