Two teachers in Guelph scolded after field trip down a storm drain
Posted June 7, 2024 11:45 am.
Last Updated June 7, 2024 3:20 pm.
An unconventional field trip in the Royal City led to a scolding for two teachers on Thursday.
Just after 11 a.m., Guelph Police received an odd call from two people in the Yorkshire St. North and Elora St. area who reported seeing someone lifting a manhole cover and crawling inside.
Officers and firefighters arrived on scene, prepared to rappel into the sewer system when two teachers from a nearby high school informed them that the figure who was seen lifting the manhole cover was one of their students.
The teachers explained that they had taken their class on a field trip exploring the stormwater management system when one student climbed up a storm drain, opened the manhole cover, and closed it.
The high school teachers were reprimanded for the field trip and told of the safety concerns of taking a class into the stormwater management system.
