This post was one of my earliest posts, in the early days of walking around parks looking for holes. Basically I was trekking down the outskirts of Wyman Park looking for the infall tunnel of stoney run and it described what I thought was a specialized infall intake doing its job of filtering trees and debris from the drain. It turned out that it was just an infall that was buried in debris. Below the text describes how I had to climb on top this massive dam of trees and debris. Peering down into the debris hearing the water moving and apparently dissapearing into the side of the ridge, my imagination ran wild thinking of this stream at flood stage comparing it to a bathtub’s whirlpool.
The intake sits buried under multiple flood seasons of massive tree trunks and any sort of debris you can imagine. 5-7 meters deep. Peering down at the intake is done at height. Dry Debris from flood stages sits as high as 5-8 meters above the intake. Painting a clear picture of this area. If that this area fills up like a pool, trees, mattresses and debris bobbing about making circles around the vortex of the intake. During periods of heavy rains and flooding this is the last place any soul would want to be, as there is no doubt turns into a whirlpool / hydraulic vortex.
This area is accessed through troves of poison ivy patches, and animal trails that traverse at 30 percent grade. The original idea was to visualize “a mouth” or open conduit system.
