Commercial News
When an insurance customer needs urgent assistance with a water supply or drainage problem, they value the experts who will take control and sort it, quickly. That is where Lisa Kibbler’s team comes into its own. Lisa is the customer operations manager for the Lanes Group plc Insurance Division which provides drainage and clean water…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have used new pipe cleaning technology to solve persistent drain blockage problems at a nuclear power station. They used two machines – a new Picote mini cleaner and an electro-mechanical cutter – to clear drains in one of the two reactor halls at Heysham power station in Lancashire. Their…
Severn Trent wastewater engineers made the most unusual catch of the day by rescuing two fish from a sewer. Brothers Martin and Chas Jeffries realised ‘fins’ weren’t right when the fish appeared on their CCTV survey camera. But they didn’t get into a flap – instead they managed to pull the fish to a manhole…
Drainage and water utilities specialist Lanes Group plc has grown its service capability with continued investment in a modern tanker fleet. In five years, the company has built a fleet of 60 tankers to support contracts with three water companies and a growing number of commercial customers. Roland Leslie, General Manager of the Lanes Tankering…
Christmas revellers and food businesses are being urged not to feed the fatbergs after Lanes Group sewer cleaning teams removed two giant waste monsters from beneath the streets of London. The Lanes teams, working for Thames Water, sliced a 30-tonne fatberg from a sewer beneath Borough Market in Southwark, South London, and a 63-tonne fatberg…
Move aside, Charles Dickens! There’s a new version of “A Christmas Carol” in town this year – turning the classic festive tale into a story about the importance of clean drains. Entitled “The Drains of Christmas Future”, the two-minute animation provides a fun and timely twist on an iconic narrative, warning viewers of exactly what…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have completed the excavation and replacement of a cast iron wastewater pipe during the refurbishment of a row of shops. A second drain was rehabilitated by installing local structural repairs (LSRs), also known as patch liners, beneath the five shops in the centre of King’s Lynn in Norfolk. The…
Families across the US are being urged to do their bit to prevent unwanted drain blockages this Thanksgiving by taking care over what they choose to put down the sink. The call comes following the successful conclusion of Unblocktober, a groundbreaking new public awareness campaign in the UK that saw more than 4,500 participants coming…