It’s smart of them to just candidly show people these sewer tunnels so that thrillseekers won’t be as encouraged to go down them which causes trouble for them. Everyone wins.
I have Lived in St. Louis all my life until fifteen years ago moved to Union I am seventy three years old. This is very interesting I had never heard about the river running under the park. It is funny my sister in law thought it was great that this river ran behind her house. Now we find out it is sewage! Oh my!
Note the over ground part of the River Des Peres (the wide open channel that passes beside 44 and under 55) is generally just storm water runoff... it only has sewage when there's a lot of rain and the sewage backs up over weirs like they showed in this video. But I've lived in south city/county for a couple decades and due to the way it's set up, some of us affectionately call it "River Des Poop"!
I can't get over what a great job you did filming this with the multiple lighting, the remote angles, and the great audio. Not to mention the fascinating story. Kudos!
I get recommendations when there’s new videos about river des peres. I’ve live right next to it. And have always been fascinated with the river. I really enjoyed this video. The production value was great!
That is incredible just amazing, I really hope that the generations coming are ready to complete and make improvements to not just sewer systems but everything we take for granted
I always enjoy your videos, and this one was no exception. I appreciate the research you put into your work. The historical context with photos is particularly interesting! Thank you!
We appreciate you! Thank you so much for watching and your support. We have a couple of episodes coming up in which we hope to integrate more historical photo comparisons on the spot, so stay tuned. 😀
"Keep your hands off the hand rail due to sewage" *touches wall* 😂. Had to point that out, you know me! Love the vids and keep up the amazing work, see ya on the 26th!
I guess its ok because the rail is wood and is porous, so it can hold bacteria longer than the wall. Sill, a handrail you can't touch is very dumb lol.
I'm more surprised you pronounced River des Peres correctly. I knew the river flowed under the city, but just didn't know where the start and end points were located at.
Another amazing odyssey! I lived in IL for 4 years and it is amazing what is out there or in this case under our feet. Hope no one slipped while touring the underground.
In the 1930s my great grandfather helped design much of the subsequent St. Louis sewer system. Grandpa Funk was an amazing man, part of the city’s rich German history.
This sort of thing is common in a lot of cities. Toronto, London, Paris is famous for is. Even where I currently reside, in Peterborough Ontario, there is a substantial creek that flows under the downtown. Fortunately, it doesn't take sewage overflow. It's fairly fast flowing and they've uncovered it in some areas. One of my favourite restaurants in the middle of town has a section of the creek flowing past it before it goes back underground.
What an incredible find and tour! I just found your channel after seeing your video on Palos Verdes, and have been watching all of them. Love how you intertwine historical information and pics with your videos. Excellent! So glad I found you!
Awesome 😇 I'm surprised this isn't mentioned more. The St. Louis area engineers and public works departments have mastered relocating and channeling water. We had a canal right behind our house.
I had never really paid attention to that gate before after all my times running in Forest Park. However, when I ran yesterday (before I saw the video), I noticed that the gate was open and I could see the same stairs you walked down. Very cool video!
Wow, never knew that was there. So interesting how the system was built in the 20’s. Also that it was the World’s Fair that prompted diverting the river (sewage dump😮). Pretty much all of the Worlds Fairs have interesting stories. So glad you found this place and got an inside look. I love tunnels, so fascinating how they are built, and cool to explore.
Thank you so much for this video! I live here in Saint Louis and have seen the tunnel Inlet covered up in FP numerous times and was always curious about!
Just North of the river used to be the lake, which is the city of Florissant in North County. Had to be drained (more of a vast swamp). I think the timelines match.
I learned about this a few years ago but it's cool to actually learn more about it, something else I know is some of the buildings down in the city are connected by tunnels they are old old tunnels I know one goes under the st.louis library main branch also the city museum is haunted af
Great history lesson! I live in U City and this spring I saw the portion of River Des Peres flood behind the local high school. It took out the fencing and flooded the fields. I was curious about where the water was routed.
In the 1950s I lived in Afton very near River Des Pères. We used to play in the large conduit under the drive which emptied into the open air section of the river. I never saw the river with more than a trickle of water. We knew about the sewage and drainage but I never knew about it flowing under Forest Park! Very interesting!!🤓
When I visit the History Museum concerts, I will know that I'm standing on the River des Peres, that is amazing. This was a wonderful video. When Vashon high school was being built on Cass ave, in and around 2000, they discovered an underground stream at the location that had cases of wine stored in it to keep it cool. I heard rumors that an old winery was built over the stream for that purpose. There was a long staircase leading from the winery down to the stream.. This of course brought out cavers from near and far, so they had security to guard this site. The news said that the stream went south to the Mississippi river. So if you guys know anything about this, I sure would like to hear what you say, Thanks for this nice video.
I'm a native of St. Louis county. Lived there for 39 yrs. Moved to Colorado Springs in 2000. Then to Southern Indiana in Feb 2024. Knew about RD but this history is really great. So much change in St. Louis over the past 60 yrs. West County has exploded all the way out to Wentzville.
Surprised the EPA allows this combined system in St Louis, where I live the EPA forced the city to separate the two several years ago and we are still paying for it with abnormally high sewer rates
stl sewer monthly bill close to $100., while this project never will finish, a big money suck on the backs of the poor just to have a toilet. Check out MSD"s admin building on clark st. Ivory tower probably with penthouse suite.
The EPA and DOJ established an agreement with MSD (St. Louis' sewer utility) to fix the combined system. I think they have until the 2030s or 2040s to fix a bunch of things, costing billions. Every 4 or 5 years, we vote on whether to fund the next billion dollars with immediate sewer rate increases or smaller sewer rate increases by spreading that billion over 30-year bonds.
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Cool video! I had no idea about this part of St Louis history. Memphis has the Gayoso Bayou, which is a downtown creek that was similarly taken underground in the 19th and early 20th centuries. You can still explore the antique brickwork down there, with proper know-how.
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This was very interesting stuff! Was only in St Louis 2 times. Had I known more about the 1904 world fair info, would have made my visit to the zoo much more interesting!
As a resident on Lemay, Mo, I have to thank these fine folk at MSD for the water management. The Lemay sewage treatment area is bad enough without repeated visits from River Le Poo.
The sooner that River Des Peres is cleaned up, the better. MSD has done an admirable job with Deer Creek. Both could be great streams in St Louis again.
I agree completely. In Rock Hill and Brentwood, MO Deer Creek will flood during super heavy rains. I think they could improve this greatly if they would remove all the trees, bushes and other foliage that choke that creek. Same with River Des Peres. Remove all the trees and water will flow more freely, streets will not be flooded and disrupt traffic, the lumber yard in Rock Hill/Brentwood won't have to worry about their product floating away and crashing into their fence. All will be much better if they remove those obstructions from Deer Creek and River Des Peres.
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@@runnerandgunner7954 The World’s Fair Pavilion was built in 1909 with some of the profits that made from the fair. This pavilion was built to commemorate the fair.
Theyve been talking for decades about trying to restore it..but it always develops issues. There are also a TON of caves under the city, one made the news not long ago..the lost English Cave was rediscovered though only by a small drill hole
@@Nunyah_Bidness caves. English Cave is the most famous of the "lost" caves, but there is the Lemp/Cherokee Caves, a cave under Budweiser Brewery, and many more. St Louis has a LOT of them. Lost Caves Of St Louis is practically a bible for those hunting those caves.
@@SMDoktorPepper I'm not from the area but little that I do know, I figure there's a healthy population of tunnels throughout the city. That's pretty wild though, having multiple cave systems as well. Thanks for the reply & info.
if y'all are intrigued by this, our local PBS station did a whole thing about the cool stuff under STL back in the 90s: ruclips.net/video/LL8RAYHcsSE/видео.html
Awesome! What a privelidge to live with a managed sewer system. It is NOT a human right. We are the lucky ones who get to use it. When you see a MSD worker, say thank you
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That's pretty neat MSD worked with you to give you a tour, good on them and you!
It’s smart of them to just candidly show people these sewer tunnels so that thrillseekers won’t be as encouraged to go down them which causes trouble for them. Everyone wins.
Thanks for the underground tour, nice of St. Louis officials to assist you, really a great video guys!
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Lived in St. Louis all my life until fifteen years ago moved to Union I am seventy three years old. This is very interesting I had never heard about the river running under the park. It is funny my sister in law thought it was great that this river ran behind her house. Now we find out it is sewage! Oh my!
Note the over ground part of the River Des Peres (the wide open channel that passes beside 44 and under 55) is generally just storm water runoff... it only has sewage when there's a lot of rain and the sewage backs up over weirs like they showed in this video.
But I've lived in south city/county for a couple decades and due to the way it's set up, some of us affectionately call it "River Des Poop"!
@@JeffGeerling ha, my parents called it River Des Stink
@@JeffGeerling Whoa! I've been watching your channel for years. I had no idea you lived in st louis!
@@joeedgar634 Born and raised!
I grew up in St. Louis and only moved over to Alton when I was 19. I am 51 now. Had no clue this existed.
I can't get over what a great job you did filming this with the multiple lighting, the remote angles, and the great audio. Not to mention the fascinating story. Kudos!
Thank you! 😊
I get recommendations when there’s new videos about river des peres. I’ve live right next to it. And have always been fascinated with the river. I really enjoyed this video. The production value was great!
How awesome! My house is right along the River Des Peres in University City. Thanks for sharing the history of this waterway.
That is incredible just amazing, I really hope that the generations coming are ready to complete and make improvements to not just sewer systems but everything we take for granted
I always enjoy your videos, and this one was no exception. I appreciate the research you put into your work. The historical context with photos is particularly interesting! Thank you!
We appreciate you! Thank you so much for watching and your support. We have a couple of episodes coming up in which we hope to integrate more historical photo comparisons on the spot, so stay tuned. 😀
"Keep your hands off the hand rail due to sewage" *touches wall* 😂. Had to point that out, you know me! Love the vids and keep up the amazing work, see ya on the 26th!
I noticed that too lol 😂
I guess its ok because the rail is wood and is porous, so it can hold bacteria longer than the wall. Sill, a handrail you can't touch is very dumb lol.
@@Rainkit concrete is porous too, not as much but still porous hehe.
@@brooklynbaby1987 hi kris10.. i mean brooklynbaby! see you on the 26th?
😂 they are touching the walls!
That was an awesome find good job you two
Another excellent video which I found fascinating to watch and I am always looking forward to your next video,please keep them coming.👍😁😁😁😁🚜🇬🇧
I'm more surprised you pronounced River des Peres correctly. I knew the river flowed under the city, but just didn't know where the start and end points were located at.
Another amazing odyssey! I lived in IL for 4 years and it is amazing what is out there or in this case under our feet. Hope no one slipped while touring the underground.
In the 1930s my great grandfather helped design much of the subsequent St. Louis sewer system. Grandpa Funk was an amazing man, part of the city’s rich German history.
Sorry to break it to you but no he didn’t build nothing, it was founded.
@@Konradical007It was founded? You sound stupid
Was Grandpa related to Bob Funk? The Oklahoma cattle Barron?
Was he related to Grand Funk😅
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the busch light cans in the stairwell at 6:20 is so stl... haha
Kudos to you, Drew and Bethany, for finding and sharing the most interesting and unusual sights and sites. 👍
Thank you, Noah!
This sort of thing is common in a lot of cities. Toronto, London, Paris is famous for is.
Even where I currently reside, in Peterborough Ontario, there is a substantial creek that flows under the downtown. Fortunately, it doesn't take sewage overflow.
It's fairly fast flowing and they've uncovered it in some areas.
One of my favourite restaurants in the middle of town has a section of the creek flowing past it before it goes back underground.
What an incredible find and tour! I just found your channel after seeing your video on Palos Verdes, and have been watching all of them. Love how you intertwine historical information and pics with your videos. Excellent! So glad I found you!
Thanks!
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I run right past that spot all the time. No secret that the river is down there. Always wondered it that grate went down to it.
Amazing!
Awesome 😇 I'm surprised this isn't mentioned more. The St. Louis area engineers and public works departments have mastered relocating and channeling water. We had a canal right behind our house.
Wooooheeee! It takes brave souls to deep dive under Forest Park! What a GREAT exploration!!! Who knew??
It takes brave souls just to go to the city! I stay in the county
I had never really paid attention to that gate before after all my times running in Forest Park. However, when I ran yesterday (before I saw the video), I noticed that the gate was open and I could see the same stairs you walked down. Very cool video!
Imagine someone sneaking down there then BOOM........5 minutes later MSD locks it back 🔐.
Underground my favorite kind of video! 👍🏻😃👍🏿🇨🇦🇵🇭🇺🇲
Great a new video!
This is really interesting. Thanks for taking the time to make the video.
Such a cool tour! Thanks for sharing!
This was fascinating! Lucky you to get a tour. It must be your reputation. ❤
Wow, never knew that was there. So interesting how the system was built in the 20’s. Also that it was the World’s Fair that prompted diverting the river (sewage dump😮). Pretty much all of the Worlds Fairs have interesting stories.
So glad you found this place and got an inside look. I love tunnels, so fascinating how they are built, and cool to explore.
Thank you so much for this video! I live here in Saint Louis and have seen the tunnel Inlet covered up in FP numerous times and was always curious about!
So glad to see my California favorites in my new home town of St. Louis, Missouri
Hopefully you left that “California enlightenment” back west
Very Martin Zero feel searching for lost rivers! Love it!
MSD has a lot of unique areas under their control. I use to work for them it was fun.
how cool! i wanna go! yall be safe now you hear!!!
hope you & the cats doing well
God bless!
Fantastic Episode. Thank you
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Very educational. I lived in SL for almost a year n never heard anything about it!!! Thank you for posting
Just North of the river used to be the lake, which is the city of Florissant in North County. Had to be drained (more of a vast swamp). I think the timelines match.
I learned about this a few years ago but it's cool to actually learn more about it, something else I know is some of the buildings down in the city are connected by tunnels they are old old tunnels I know one goes under the st.louis library main branch also the city museum is haunted af
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Too cool ! Oddity adventures of infrastructure - Interesting odyssey !
Greetings & Gratitude for this information. Wow!
Great history lesson! I live in U City and this spring I saw the portion of River Des Peres flood behind the local high school. It took out the fencing and flooded the fields. I was curious about where the water was routed.
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Wow! I've lived in the St. Louis area all my life, but have never heard of this before. Very interesting!
I lived in the St Louis area for a number of years .. never knew that existed! THX
Lived here all my life and did not know this. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool that you got an "official" underground tour! Where to next?
South City boy here, born and raised. This is great stuff to learn more details about. Thanks.
Just found you guys on my recommended and love your stuff you two need a TV show I would watch
Awesome video Beth & Drew!!
Great video. Very interesting presentation of an unusual structure. Keep up the good work.
So many people are going to break in there now. Very cool through, never heard about it.
In the 1950s I lived in Afton very near River Des Pères. We used to play in the large conduit under the drive which emptied into the open air section of the river. I never saw the river with more than a trickle of water. We knew about the sewage and drainage but I never knew about it flowing under Forest Park! Very interesting!!🤓
What a great presentation! I live within an hour from there and had no idea!
From Stl never knew about this. This is cool!
thank you for this, I love hidden histories
Super interesting!!!
Solid presentation! Thank you.
When I visit the History Museum concerts, I will know that I'm standing on the River des Peres, that is amazing. This was a wonderful video. When Vashon high school was being built on Cass ave, in and around 2000, they discovered an underground stream at the location that had cases of wine stored in it to keep it cool. I heard rumors that an old winery was built over the stream for that purpose. There was a long staircase leading from the winery down to the stream.. This of course brought out cavers from near and far, so they had security to guard this site. The news said that the stream went south to the Mississippi river. So if you guys know anything about this, I sure would like to hear what you say, Thanks for this nice video.
I'm a native of St. Louis county. Lived there for 39 yrs. Moved to Colorado Springs in 2000. Then to Southern Indiana in Feb 2024. Knew about RD but this history is really great. So much change in St. Louis over the past 60 yrs. West County has exploded all the way out to Wentzville.
I worked at MSD back in 2019 and we took a tour down there. It was incredible to see how large those tunnels are.
And thanks to Anheuser-Busch and MSD STL has the best tap water in the world
I've lived in St. Louis for 26 years, and I never knew about this. Awesome video!
Surprised the EPA allows this combined system in St Louis, where I live the EPA forced the city to separate the two several years ago and we are still paying for it with abnormally high sewer rates
What city?
stl sewer monthly bill close to $100., while this project never will finish, a big money suck on the backs of the poor just to have a toilet. Check out MSD"s admin building on clark st. Ivory tower probably with penthouse suite.
The EPA and DOJ established an agreement with MSD (St. Louis' sewer utility) to fix the combined system. I think they have until the 2030s or 2040s to fix a bunch of things, costing billions. Every 4 or 5 years, we vote on whether to fund the next billion dollars with immediate sewer rate increases or smaller sewer rate increases by spreading that billion over 30-year bonds.
Excellent presentation! I enjoyed the learning experience.
Thank you!
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Cool video! I had no idea about this part of St Louis history. Memphis has the Gayoso Bayou, which is a downtown creek that was similarly taken underground in the 19th and early 20th centuries. You can still explore the antique brickwork down there, with proper know-how.
What’s even more odd is the underground stream at Bissell Tower that leads downhill to the Mississippi. A part of the Underground Railroad
I wanna know more about that!
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This was very interesting stuff! Was only in St Louis 2 times. Had I known more about the 1904 world fair info, would have made my visit to the zoo much more interesting!
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They did the same kind of thing in Hartford Connecticut with the Hog river
As a resident on Lemay, Mo, I have to thank these fine folk at MSD for the water management. The Lemay sewage treatment area is bad enough without repeated visits from River Le Poo.
There is a underwater water way underneath Hartford Conn. Goes under Bushway Park out to the Connecticut River..
Great video
Thank yoy
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Great show and tell.
I have a small stretch of des pere in heman park that is still quite stinky. I always wanted to know where that entrance was at.
Thank u guys. Didn't know all that and I live here unfortunately.....
The sooner that River Des Peres is cleaned up, the better. MSD has done an admirable job with Deer Creek. Both could be great streams in St Louis again.
I agree completely. In Rock Hill and Brentwood, MO Deer Creek will flood during super heavy rains. I think they could improve this greatly if they would remove all the trees, bushes and other foliage that choke that creek. Same with River Des Peres. Remove all the trees and water will flow more freely, streets will not be flooded and disrupt traffic, the lumber yard in Rock Hill/Brentwood won't have to worry about their product floating away and crashing into their fence. All will be much better if they remove those obstructions from Deer Creek and River Des Peres.
I live in Lemay, and we call it River De Stink.
Wow! Very entertaining and informative.
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Very cool!!
Great vid and history lesson.
The 1904 World’s Fair is not as it seems- those buildings were not built as ‘temporary structures’ to be torn down after the fair.
100% Truth. The Art Museum is the only building that was built for the 1904 World’s Fair that is still standing.
@@314jrock I think the World's Fair Pavilion and the statue of St. Louis on his horse also hold that distinction. I could be wrong, though.
@@runnerandgunner7954 The World’s Fair Pavilion was built in 1909 with some of the profits that made from the fair. This pavilion was built to commemorate the fair.
Missouri cheese caves.
Huck Finn.
I'll visit.
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Theyve been talking for decades about trying to restore it..but it always develops issues. There are also a TON of caves under the city, one made the news not long ago..the lost English Cave was rediscovered though only by a small drill hole
Caves...or tunnels?
@@Nunyah_Bidness caves. English Cave is the most famous of the "lost" caves, but there is the Lemp/Cherokee Caves, a cave under Budweiser Brewery, and many more. St Louis has a LOT of them. Lost Caves Of St Louis is practically a bible for those hunting those caves.
@@SMDoktorPepper I'm not from the area but little that I do know, I figure there's a healthy population of tunnels throughout the city. That's pretty wild though, having multiple cave systems as well. Thanks for the reply & info.
Really cool that MSD cooperated!
We're so grateful for their time and insights!
if y'all are intrigued by this, our local PBS station did a whole thing about the cool stuff under STL back in the 90s: ruclips.net/video/LL8RAYHcsSE/видео.html
Thanks for sharing.
I work for the company that bores the tunnels in st louis it's an insane job working 200 ft below the earth's surface
Very cool thanks for sharing!
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Wow, this was soo cool!
So very cool!
Was the air quality safe down there with all that sewage?
Awesome! What a privelidge to live with a managed sewer system. It is NOT a human right. We are the lucky ones who get to use it. When you see a MSD worker, say thank you