CCTV News

Investment in EX drainage cameras enhances safe working

12/01/2017

Lanes Group can offer clients a full CCTV drainage survey service with enhanced standards of safe working in potentially hazardous environments after investing in EX-rated camera technology. The drainage survey camera systems are designed to be ‘intrinsically safe’ when operated in confined spaces where there is a risk that they could come into contact with…

Let’s go surfing – in a 400-year-old culvert

28/06/2016

Drainage engineers found a novel solution when a client needed to establish the condition of a centuries-old culvert – they went surfing. The team from the Lanes depot in Plymouth mounted a CCTV drainage survey camera on a surfboard and floated it through the culvert under an Elizabethan building. Usually, they would have used one…

Lanes engineers visit the seals for aquarium clean

19/09/2015

Lanes Group drainage engineers have cleaned a seal enclosure at an aquarium while being watched by those who have had a vested interest in the quality of their work – the seals themselves. The seals remained in their Seal Cove home at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, while the team based…

Lanes Group turns to bat technology to sound out sewer problems

14/08/2015

  Lanes Group has become the first wastewater network contractor in the UK to commercially deploy pipe inspection technology that uses sound to assess the condition of sewers. The company’s utilities division has worked in partnership with Thames Water to implement the SewerBatt acoustic inspection device, which uses the same echo-location principles that allow bats…

Surf’s up in the mountains of North Wales!

07/08/2015

Surf Snowdonia – a unique sports attraction developed with specialist drainage support from Lanes Group – has opened to public acclaim. The amazing inland water sports centre, nestled beneath the mountains of Snowdonia, generates the longest man-made surfing waves in the world. And the beauty of it is, each wave at the Surf Snowdonia Wavegarden…