Environment News
Lanes camera technology is being used to inspect sea defences at Lowestoft Ness the most easterly point in the United Kingdom to monitor their condition. A team from the Lanes depot at St Neots has been helping Waveney District Council, to monitor the foundations of the sea wall at Ness Point, Lowestoft, in Suffolk. The…
Lanes drainage engineers know all about the need for excellent health and safety – and it appears these geese do too! A Lanes Utilities team working for Thames Water was travelling between jobs when they had to stop to allow these smart birds cross the road, at a pedestrian crossing. They were so impressed that…
Lanes Group has completed its biggest ever excavation project in Scotland with the installation of two large interceptor tanks just one metre from one of the country’s largest maternity units. In the £160,000 15-week project, the Lanes Glasgow depot installed the tanks at University Hospital Crosshouse, Kilmarnock, on a site next to the new Ayrshire…
Lanes Utilities drainage engineers have worked with firefighters at the scene of a huge rubbish fire to remove thousands of litres of contaminated water before it could reach the sewage system and local rivers. A two-person Lanes breathing apparatus team entered an area found to have dangerously high levels of hydrogen sulphide gas to empty…
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…
Yorkshire-based transformer manufacturer, Winder Power, is the first site in Europe to install a revolutionary web-interfaced interceptor monitor, thanks to Lanes and Aquasentry. The web-based monitor and alarm system recognises high oil levels in the interceptors, and triggers an alarm which immediately closes a device to seal the site within seconds. It ensures that Winder’s…
For the third year running, Lanes for Drains has won a Royal Mail Group Property Gold Award for consistently outstanding performance. The UK’s largest independent drainage specialist was also one of only three companies given a Supplier Recognition Environmental Award for its ‘green’ credentials. Lanes picked up the Gold award for its drainage services to…
