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You can crawl/crouch under the retarding basin to get to the bigger bit, but it hardly seems worth it (other than to conquer the drain). When we did it... probably in the 80s or early 90s, once it got bigger it soon got small again. We basically got to where it shrunk (it wasn't long... 5 minutes maybe) and we found a gutter box and got out. As far as I remember it was easy to find a way out but it was a residential area.
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