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A team from Lanes Group will be showcasing their drainage services and unrivalled expertise at the Water Sewerage and Waste Magazine exhibition being held in Durham on November 13. The event at the Ramside Hall Hotel, in Carville, is expected to attract many leading figures and suppliers in the water and sewerage industry. Lanes Group…
Lanes Group drainage engineers have helped solve a pollution problem in one of the UK’s most famous rivers where it was hidden from view under a shopping centre. They were called in to search for the source of raw sewage coming from a surface water drain after it was spotted by construction workers. The sewage…
Lanes engineers have put their jet vacuumation technology to a very special use – emptying a ‘bath of baked beans’. They vacuumed up the beans at the Holiday Inn Warrington on Thursday (June 19) after General Manager Anthony Milligan had spent the whole day sitting in them in the hotel foyer. He raised over £500…
Lanes Group drainage engineers are supporting the emergency response to a fire at a recycling centre in Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf. The Celtic Waste recycling centre, where the fire started in the early hours of Tuesday 17 June 2014, is just a few metres from the South Wales depot of Lanes Group, the UK’s largest…
Firefighters have praised Lanes Group engineers for playing a vital role in rescuing a little dog called Dottie from more than 100 feet down a drain in a public park. The six-year-old Chihuahua-Jack Russell cross is believed to have dashed after a mouse or rat when she disappeared down the storm drain in Sunny Hill…
Lanes Group is sponsoring four intrepid women who are cycling across Tanzania in Africa to raise money for cancer care. One of the women is Jacky Godfrey, whose husband, Ian, died from cancer in 2010. Jacky and her sister, Christine Humberstone, plus two close friends, Philippa McDowell and Shirley Foster, have now joined a charity…
Kim Ulmer and her family say they have their local Lanes for Drains depot to thank for saving their Christmas. The family lives close to the Lanes for Drains St Neots depot, in Eaton Socon, which provides drain blockage and drain repair services across the East Anglia region. A week before Christmas, the water in…
Lanes for Drains engineers have saved a village near Bristol from the threat of flooding by cutting tonnes of calcite from a pipe taking spring water to the River Avon. They brought in a trailer-mounted jetting unit that can deliver water at up to 15,000 PSI – up to twice the pressure of a conventional…