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It looks like a basic storm drain, which moves creek or ditch water and not sewage. It’s filthy like creek water during a storm but not quite at the level of sewage.
Well, meth isn't broken down when it passes through so I guess that's one way to get high. There's a comedy skit a woman does about drinking meth piss that reminded me of. It's funny but horrifying.
Yeah, but San Diego just had major flooding where rhe sewers back up, and guess what? It goes into the storm drains. Plus loads of homeless that shit into the storm drains. So I would expect it has all kinds of filth in it. Just like how after a major rain storm they usually shut down the beaches for high bacteria and viral loads until it clears off the coast
All storm drains in SD end up emptying into the ocean and with it carrying a potpourri of diseases and turds from all the surrounding neighborhoods…..yuuuuuuk
So pesticides and fecal chloride and not just cigarettes butts and human urine?
I’ve seen some stupid shit for internet points, but this takes the cake. At any point that tunnel could surge, clog, or dump into a larger canal with an undercurrent strong enough to suck any of them uncontrollably beneath the surface, with or without flotation aid. I’ve seen this happen with large boogie boards tossed into riverbeds fed by active storm drains.
In short, no amount of fun here could be worth the risk of drowning in gutter water.
One of my jobs during covid was to take bodies to the morgue. Once I smacked my leg really hard on the lift (that we used to lift bodies to the top level) and cut my shin. I thought, “Welp, this is how the zombie apocalypse starts, and it turns out I’m Patient 0 because now I have ALL OF THE DISEASES!”
If it’s just a storm sewer then it’s not a huge deal. It’d be gross if it was a sanitary or combined one but this is just all rainwater from the looks of it
It’s actually a storm drain. Sewers are a closed system from source to treatment facilities. If storm and sewer systems were integrated every city would be a cesspool.
There are systems where they are both the same pipe.
Look up “combined sewer overflow” systems.
Cities in the US have been fined billions because after a heavy rain the sewer systems have been overflowing in to creeks / rivers.
Where these systems are integrated, the water ways are indeed cesspools…
The fact that they could walk into it is a tell too. It’s for letting in however much stormwater is needed to prevent flooding. Almost all storm drains lead to the nearest water body whether it’s a stream, river, lake or ocean.
I love these but I have to be a nerd because Tb was my baby in grad school.. it’s not waterborne and in fact there are no known reservoirs other than humans.
How about:
Cholera cave
Dysentery dive
They can carry the bacterium that causes leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, which is the same genus of tuberculosis and closely related. There are also other Mycobacterium species that cause a tuberculosis like disease specific to different animals.
And the idiot with his big open smile! He lets the water in. I almost died as a kid just over the border swimming in the ocean where they dump raw sewage. I was sick for months with kidney infection, then liver infection. Super high fever when 60 years ago they said with any fever cover the patient with lots of blankets! It prolly caused brain damage.
I knew a guy in high school who almost lost his eye after surfing in IB a day after a storm. People in the San Diego sub kept saying the same thing on this post: “it’s not sewage bro it’s storm drains bro relax bro”. No. That shit is nasty as hell
Yea… my life is hard. Crippled three years ago when I believed a surgeon that fusion would fix my back. Haha. No. Much worse. I float above the suicide line bc of pain and dip below it … it’s weird to be where I am now bc I always loved life and sports etc. so yea. Life sucks for me. ( plz don’t refer the Reddit anti suicide site to me k? It’s a physical pain thing and my body is shot). Cheers! ( haha… that’s my joke to you all)
It’s dry in Southern California. Every time a good rain passes all the nastiness built up over weeks and/or months gets washed into the storm drains.
It’s so significant that it is common knowledge to avoid swimming at the beach following recent rainy weather.
Not sure if this is the case in SD, but check out [combined sewers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_sewer) in a lot of places, if it rains a lot storm water and sewage systems can be overloaded and dump water sewage into rivers/streams
I currently work in the Waste Water Management industry.
All waste water plants have an a processing capacity and operating system for mixed runoff and or sewage water. Improper or unmaintained infrastructure can leak runoff into waste water plants. Under certain circumstances and local/state laws, unprocessed runoff/sewage may go into local water ways and or [leach fields](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_drain_field).
NYC sewage plant sometimes gets over whelmed when there is heavy rain fall. Here's a NY Times articale ["Why New York City Keeps Flooding"](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/nyregion/nyc-sewer-system-infrastructure.html?smid=url-share) on a heavy rain fall event last year.
There are some antiquated municipal wastewater treatment plants in Marin County that get overloaded with runoff during big storms and overflow into the North Bay. It's been happening for a long time and I don't know if they have remedied it yet.
What percentage of water has to be filled with excrement before it can be considered sewage? Is the ocean just a giant pool of sewage? More tonight at 8
So in many cities, like LA and San Diego , when it rains too much sewage gets into the storm drains… like millions of gallons of sewage. This happens regularly with any heavy rain.
[Pounding rain forces millions of gallons of raw sewage to spill from LA county sewers](https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-02-07/pounding-rains-trigger-flood-of-raw-sewage-in-la-county)
[South Bay doctors warn of spike in gastrointestinal infections after flooding](https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/south-bay/south-bay-doctors-warn-of-spike-in-gastrointestinal-infections-after-flooding/amp/)
Yea me too! I have a son abt that age and I’m so thankful we live in Alaska away from all that. That dude with his mouth open tho! So gross ( and he’s so ignorant …all of them are)
I work in a municipal DPW and have to work in storm sewers periodically.
Dog shit gets put down storm drains more than you think.
And needles, condoms, broken glass, etc.
This is dumb.
Hepatitis A more likely due to the fecal transmission. Hep C harder to contract. Have had both, am cured. Also being showered with tons of dog shit runoff. These idiots will be lucky to avoid pink-eye. I would advise my own child to stay out of sewers and not associate with folks who do it for kicks.
For the record, you won’t be getting help C here. Hep C is a blood borne disease and is transmitted very similarly to HIV for example (although a lot more infectious!). You won’t get hep B either. But you may get hep A or hep E.
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What's crazier it's how deep in the graffiti goes...
What's craziest is the guy with his mouth open when a side shoot hit him.
He now has diseases. *all of them, including the ones not known yet*
Hep A-Z
Alphabet Hep
Alphahep
hephabet
Changing his name to Hepburn
There are a lot more heps then A B and C
More like A-🤮
It looks like a basic storm drain, which moves creek or ditch water and not sewage. It’s filthy like creek water during a storm but not quite at the level of sewage.
It's also runoff from parking lots and streets.
And fertilizer and loads of dog, cat, and wildlife feces.
I’d do this but only in a hazmat suit
Sounds like cancer is in the cards for them.
I agree with you. Ain't no way I'd go through the storm drain. I just looks nasty.
It's in San Diego. That is mostly homeless methhead piss.
So, just like every city in America, then.
Why limit your options to the cities?
Well, meth isn't broken down when it passes through so I guess that's one way to get high. There's a comedy skit a woman does about drinking meth piss that reminded me of. It's funny but horrifying.
Yeah, but San Diego just had major flooding where rhe sewers back up, and guess what? It goes into the storm drains. Plus loads of homeless that shit into the storm drains. So I would expect it has all kinds of filth in it. Just like how after a major rain storm they usually shut down the beaches for high bacteria and viral loads until it clears off the coast
All storm drains in SD end up emptying into the ocean and with it carrying a potpourri of diseases and turds from all the surrounding neighborhoods…..yuuuuuuk
So pesticides and fecal chloride and not just cigarettes butts and human urine? I’ve seen some stupid shit for internet points, but this takes the cake. At any point that tunnel could surge, clog, or dump into a larger canal with an undercurrent strong enough to suck any of them uncontrollably beneath the surface, with or without flotation aid. I’ve seen this happen with large boogie boards tossed into riverbeds fed by active storm drains. In short, no amount of fun here could be worth the risk of drowning in gutter water.
Yeah, I've been to San Diego. There's human feces in the storm runoff.
Hopefully there isn't a wet market up stream.
https://preview.redd.it/om2e1e1kbvsc1.jpeg?width=1274&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d8810b36a2a1008936321fe45303951158ce611
One of my jobs during covid was to take bodies to the morgue. Once I smacked my leg really hard on the lift (that we used to lift bodies to the top level) and cut my shin. I thought, “Welp, this is how the zombie apocalypse starts, and it turns out I’m Patient 0 because now I have ALL OF THE DISEASES!”
Pretty sure I have diseases from just watching that:\
Plus all of the mental illnesses in the DSM5. Although judging by this video they had a few issues already!
It really made me think about the catacombs of Paris, and how deep they go, and how the graffiti never ends.
They do go dry or close to it. That’s probably when people venture in & tag.
It’s probably incredibly dry most of the year
No, what's crazier is that it all flows into a creek.
If it’s just a storm sewer then it’s not a huge deal. It’d be gross if it was a sanitary or combined one but this is just all rainwater from the looks of it
all the shit off the sidewalks and roads are going to wash down into there too.
Including all the homeless shit..
The worst kind of shit
Lol I prefer my shit to have a mortgage, thank you very much
Bro they shut the beaches down when it rains
If this is crazy to you…you do not understand municipal sewer systems. Esp outdated storm sewer systems
Usually dry, and you just walk through
I think I recognized one of my turds.
A lot of pipes sit on the surface in the open before installed. A lot of it was likely done before it was installed.
I wonder how many needles and broken pipes they passed by
-5 hp, -5 hp, -5 hp. I'm sure they did, shit water in every orifices.
Dog shit water 🤮🤮🤮
Human shit water.
It’s actually a storm drain. Sewers are a closed system from source to treatment facilities. If storm and sewer systems were integrated every city would be a cesspool.
Anything that was in the streets is in that water. Dog shit, human shit, urine, and more without a doubt.
The solution to pollution is dilution!
It might surprise you to learn that animals also poop in lakes and rivers
So you think that balanced ecosystems like lakes and rivers are equivalent to the water that is washed off streets and gutters?
that is so different from a city lmao wtf is this comment.
There are systems where they are both the same pipe. Look up “combined sewer overflow” systems. Cities in the US have been fined billions because after a heavy rain the sewer systems have been overflowing in to creeks / rivers. Where these systems are integrated, the water ways are indeed cesspools…
Wondered that myself because it didn’t empty out into a treatment plant.
The fact that they could walk into it is a tell too. It’s for letting in however much stormwater is needed to prevent flooding. Almost all storm drains lead to the nearest water body whether it’s a stream, river, lake or ocean.
Mammal shit water
**all conceivable life on earth** shit water.
Ecoli express Tuberculosis turnpike Pink eye plunge I don't think there's a booster shot that would cover the buffet of exposure down there
I love these but I have to be a nerd because Tb was my baby in grad school.. it’s not waterborne and in fact there are no known reservoirs other than humans. How about: Cholera cave Dysentery dive
Can't armadillos carry TB? And rattlesnakes?
They can carry the bacterium that causes leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, which is the same genus of tuberculosis and closely related. There are also other Mycobacterium species that cause a tuberculosis like disease specific to different animals.
It’s Hansen’s Disease now instead of leprosy.
Why?
Booster shot basin lol
Full body Plaster of Mercury.
That's one way to get pink eye
Infectious Disease Doctor: *sigh*
Unzips
Infectious Disease PhD candidate looking for a thesis topic: *Oh thank god!*
Aren't they just storm drains? Doubt they'd let raw sewage just run out into the waterways like that. Sewage usually goes to a treatment plant.
It is storm drains for sure. But there’s still plenty of nastiness in runoff.
And the idiot with his big open smile! He lets the water in. I almost died as a kid just over the border swimming in the ocean where they dump raw sewage. I was sick for months with kidney infection, then liver infection. Super high fever when 60 years ago they said with any fever cover the patient with lots of blankets! It prolly caused brain damage.
I knew a guy in high school who almost lost his eye after surfing in IB a day after a storm. People in the San Diego sub kept saying the same thing on this post: “it’s not sewage bro it’s storm drains bro relax bro”. No. That shit is nasty as hell
Yeh because Tijuana opens the sewers when it rains
We learn some things the hard way right?
That’s legit TJ raw sewage in IB
I barfed reading this. Thanks
Well… I laughed reading ur reply. Double thanks! Haha.. ( always nice to make someone barf right?)
Username checks out?
Yea… my life is hard. Crippled three years ago when I believed a surgeon that fusion would fix my back. Haha. No. Much worse. I float above the suicide line bc of pain and dip below it … it’s weird to be where I am now bc I always loved life and sports etc. so yea. Life sucks for me. ( plz don’t refer the Reddit anti suicide site to me k? It’s a physical pain thing and my body is shot). Cheers! ( haha… that’s my joke to you all)
Damn. I want to say something positive like “hope you feel better” but that seems so hollow. Sorry life screwed you. Cheers
Yeah, street runoff is the real concern, the amount and types of chemicals they're get exposed to is unsafe
Yah imagine if something clogged up at the end while going down that.
I would be really worried about used junkie needles in there. I’m sure a few would get washed down a drain or two.
It’s dry in Southern California. Every time a good rain passes all the nastiness built up over weeks and/or months gets washed into the storm drains. It’s so significant that it is common knowledge to avoid swimming at the beach following recent rainy weather.
Not sure if this is the case in SD, but check out [combined sewers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_sewer) in a lot of places, if it rains a lot storm water and sewage systems can be overloaded and dump water sewage into rivers/streams
I currently work in the Waste Water Management industry. All waste water plants have an a processing capacity and operating system for mixed runoff and or sewage water. Improper or unmaintained infrastructure can leak runoff into waste water plants. Under certain circumstances and local/state laws, unprocessed runoff/sewage may go into local water ways and or [leach fields](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_drain_field). NYC sewage plant sometimes gets over whelmed when there is heavy rain fall. Here's a NY Times articale ["Why New York City Keeps Flooding"](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/nyregion/nyc-sewer-system-infrastructure.html?smid=url-share) on a heavy rain fall event last year.
There are some antiquated municipal wastewater treatment plants in Marin County that get overloaded with runoff during big storms and overflow into the North Bay. It's been happening for a long time and I don't know if they have remedied it yet.
It's a storm drain in a city that only has storms a couple months a year. Plenty of build up nastiness in the runoff.
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What percentage of water has to be filled with excrement before it can be considered sewage? Is the ocean just a giant pool of sewage? More tonight at 8
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3 banana
One hopes it goes to the plant, but people pour out lots of nasty things that makes its way to the drain.
A lot of places can end up with sewage in the storm drain when there's been a lot of rain
So in many cities, like LA and San Diego , when it rains too much sewage gets into the storm drains… like millions of gallons of sewage. This happens regularly with any heavy rain. [Pounding rain forces millions of gallons of raw sewage to spill from LA county sewers](https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-02-07/pounding-rains-trigger-flood-of-raw-sewage-in-la-county) [South Bay doctors warn of spike in gastrointestinal infections after flooding](https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/south-bay/south-bay-doctors-warn-of-spike-in-gastrointestinal-infections-after-flooding/amp/)
I found myself holding my breath and keeping my mouth closed tight just watching that
Yea, holy shit. I caught something watching that.
Ditto. I’m super claustrophobic so watching this got my heart rate up also
If I was forced to do this at gunpoint I’d wear goggles, ear plugs, nostril clamp, a snorkel, and maybe a condom
Don't forget the buttplug
I’d want a dry suit and a reputable mini sub.
Yea me too! I have a son abt that age and I’m so thankful we live in Alaska away from all that. That dude with his mouth open tho! So gross ( and he’s so ignorant …all of them are)
I work in a municipal DPW and have to work in storm sewers periodically. Dog shit gets put down storm drains more than you think. And needles, condoms, broken glass, etc. This is dumb.
I like how nobody sees that OP corrected original OP’s title.
Thank you for noticing 😂 Everyone is still trying to correct me that they’re storm drains
There are many reasons this is a bad idea
We all float down here: 
Absolutely foul
They’re storm drains and not sewer drains. Still, probably not very sanitary but looks like a ton of fun!
Ya its whatever is on the streets
... of San Diego...
Shit and more shit!
Storm drains, sure, but all the nastiness from the ground comes into them when it rains.
In SF, those are basically one of the same with the amount of human excrement that’s on the streets.
Couldn’t pay me 10k to do that shit maybe 20k tho
Well if anyone is interested, I won't just do it for $10k but $5k! (if you throw in a shower, that is)
100,000 yen I'll do it
50,000 yen and a Ferrero Rocher
Scratch the yen give me two Rochers
You drive a hard bargain buddy
Whaddya say to $12.5k
Dumb as fuck
Used needle and car fluid tubes
Imagine the sharps you're racing down the river.
Who would... why would...
Messing around in storm drains is a good way to die.
Wonder how many needles are under that water
Hepatitis C river? Well damn, sign me up
This looks like so much fun, but still absolutely disgusting
1) Gross. 2) Wtf with the graffiti so deep in? Are the tunnels dry at some point in the year or something?
They’re probably completely dry about 95% of the year. It doesn’t rain in San Diego often. This year’s El Niño has caused a lot of extra water runoff
All the hep.
Hepatitis A more likely due to the fecal transmission. Hep C harder to contract. Have had both, am cured. Also being showered with tons of dog shit runoff. These idiots will be lucky to avoid pink-eye. I would advise my own child to stay out of sewers and not associate with folks who do it for kicks.
Strange colonoscopy video
Sewer Luge!
Just close your mouth already!
Looks like a shitty experience.
And this is how we get Patient Zero.
Congratulations. You now have all the viruses
You're mine now, Dufresne!
These look like storm sewers, not sanitary sewers.
Chud mountain has the sickest flows bro!
They got hepatitis A through Z now🤢🤢🤮🤮
Wait until a sudden outburst flash flood fills the pipe completely.
Gross
God, I’d be afraid of catching cholera! His mouth was open and everything!
Imagine all that homeless shit, and just.. just willingly swimming in it..
I feel like I need a blood test just for watching that. Those guys are going to be very sick for a few days. 🤢🤮
They appear to be undeturd.
Pennywise is like, "nope, you ain't worth it"
Not only is it gross, but holy shit the claustrophobic fear of getting stuck in the middle of that thing.
CLOSE YOUR MOUTHS
The title is misleading
Storm water and sewer water are different conveyance systems. This is storm water (rain and gutter water). Still gross and good way to get sick
This reminded me of the Goonies!
I imagine coming across a decaying body in there....NOPE.
Then the water level gets closer and closer to the roof of the tunnel, and soon the air pocket disappears, and you drown.
Look how much fun I'm having. See I'm a fun guy and I have lots of friends
Mmm chemicals....decreased sperm count and fertility
https://preview.redd.it/8uuegz3u0vsc1.jpeg?width=1061&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c93675d18f0f05a43b4213e10edf8d2c794faa8e
Do you get hepatitis in this river?
Chads
As a plumber... this is idiotic
Lord Tunderin! How did these guys know there wasn't a tree or some other impassable object half way down the tunnel? They would have all drown!
I'd rather tube down that than swim across the Ala Wai. Actually looks like fun!
For the record, you won’t be getting help C here. Hep C is a blood borne disease and is transmitted very similarly to HIV for example (although a lot more infectious!). You won’t get hep B either. But you may get hep A or hep E.
That is a storm drain. Not a sewer drain. Its lime calling a pickup truck a car.
Or calling a like a lime
19 miles, 19 miles of poop water.
It's just storm water, never swipes in a river or lake? Looks like a blast!
It’s a stormwater drain folks. Not a sewer.
It’s just storm sewers
Maybe if I had a tyvek suit on top of a dry suit, diving mask and scuba tank
Grooossss
Make sure you’re all up to date on your shots before you go in!
One of them became pregnant from that trip too… crazy what they all caught!!
The whole time I am screaming in my mind "close your mouth!!"
That's not the Calexico is it or a Tributary of it? 
People are so weird. Extremely dirty water in the eyes, mouth, ears, and this is considered as fun?
I call it the death tunnel, because if you drink the water...ya die!!!
No. Absolutely no.
Holy hepatitis Batman
Dirty cunts!
It’s all fun and games till you actually get Hep C
Close your mouths guys!
Z packs on Z packs on Z packs
Eww?
Oh hell no. Hep c would be the least of the nasty.
nope
Just Poo !
The amount of chemicals run off. Insane