White River Series Sumps

Moosetrap Inlet Sump:

Located 11 m above lip of the 27 m Moosetrap third pitch, at the end of 8 m body sized tube, sump 1 is approx 10 m long, this was siphoned and dug open to 4 m of small passage to a squalid duck to a small chamber. A triangular passage to the Young Pretenders Pitch up, a 5.5 fixed rope. About 35 m of passage through a couple of small chambers to Sump 2 which is very narrow and mud filled.

THESE SUMPS CAN NOT BE DIVED DUE TO THE RESTRICTED NATURE OF THE PASSAGES.

References:
Descent no 184, June/July 2005. Page 17.
Descent no 186, Oct/Nov 2005. Page 15.
Descent no 194, Feb/Mar 2007. Page 11.

Moosetrap Downstream Sump:

A 3 m, 0.6 m long rift, this descends diagonally to south for -3 m but becomes too tight.

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EA Peakshole Water level Logger at Goosehill Bridge, Castleton

The Environment Agency have installed EA water depth logger at Goosehill Bridge, Castelton. This is now live at: https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/9595 . The water depth is updated every 15 minutes and the datum is the crest of the weir that was installed in 1984/5 by TSG and a group from Manchester Poly. The metre ruler on the left bank of the river when looking downstream from the bridge has the same datum so the levels on the web should be the same as the levels on the ruler.. The outputs contributing to the total flow are Peak Cavern, Slop Moll, Peakshole Sough and Russet Well.

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