Sewer Serendipity

Jim the digger has been setting about digging and finding the sewer pipe which connects the tower to a known manhole in The Sidings.  A speculative dig on the supposed sewer line came across this piece of exceptional good luck in just the right place below our Sidings entrance:

An existing sewer manhole with a spare inlet just waiting to be used in just the right direction!  The blue spray-paint line shows that direction,   Full marks for anticipation to our original builders Kilburn and Johnson.   Not only had they put the inspection chamber just there, they had protected it with heavy steel tread-plate, here seen set to one side to the right.   The water meter access flap is between my feet.

We are pretty confident of finding the water main within inches.  The above picture shows the blue direction line on perfect alignment with the big boulder beyond the digger where an orange sewer pipe awaits.   So too the mains water pipe.

The sun is shining too.  Happy days.