Rush before the rains...
Pre pub meet trip with Dave and Simon.
It's been very dry now for a good few weeks and the entrance stream is very low. However the heavy rainfall anticipated for Friday morning made us think it was a good time to get Gautries a bit organised.
Firstly I went to the dig and replaced a bodge bit of wood with a pinned scaffold brace, making it ready for a flood.
Then we cleaned out the water collection point and concreted in a short section of 180mm OD plastic pipe. This will provide a much better seal for the collection hose, and also make a more efficient way of diverting the water down into the lower cave, should it be required for other ongoing projects. This concreting needed to be done in low water, and was only made possible by Simon's temporary sandbagged dam just upstream.