Drain Maintenance News
A food retail institution in the North West is reaping the rewards of a diligent approach to drainage maintenance delivered by Lanes Group plc. Booths, which operates 27 supermarkets, has seen reactive call-outs drop off sharply as Lanes drainage engineers keep drains and surface water gulleys running smoothly. Benefits have included reduced risk of service…
Rail bosses have praised a joint drainage team from Lanes Group plc and UKDN Waterflow (LG) for its fast response to a sewer blockage at an important maintenance depot. Network Rail called track drainage specialist UKDN Waterflow (LG) after rail staff using the High Output Operational Base (HOOB) at Swindon, Wiltshire, had problems with toilets…
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…
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…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have spent a week delivering specialist pipe surveying and cleaning services to customers in Orkney. Customers praised the Lanes team for the support provided to clear a heavily-contaminated pipe, water jet drains around a major reservoir and survey sewers at a new housing estate. Five operatives from the Lanes…
The threat of flooding faced by a community in a Welsh mountain valley is being greatly reduced by a culvert clearance programme carried out by Lanes Group plc. The drainage specialist has been commissioned by the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf to carry out the surface water drain and culvert cleaning work in and…
Drainage engineers have cleaned highway interceptors on the A30 in Cornwall as part of a planned maintenance programme designed to reduce the risk of flooding during heavy rain. The teams based at Lanes Group plc’s depot in Plymouth, Devon, have been carrying out the work on the trunk road near Launceston on behalf of Ringway,…
Specialist drainage services delivered by Lanes Group plc have been deployed to support a major flood protection scheme in Leeds. CCTV drainage surveys carried out by a team from the Lanes Leeds depot along a flood-risk river identified surface water pipes that needed to be fitted with flood valves. Leeds City Council, in partnership with…
