Flood Prevention News
Care providers are becoming increasingly aware that they must tackle the hidden risks to their businesses that can be lurking out of site underground, says drainage experts Lanes Group. Often, in the past, maintenance of drainage and sewer systems has been treated as an afterthought, but there are signs this is changing, says the UK’s…
Lanes Group is helping to identify and resolve widespread potential flood problems in a town in Greater Manchester. Bolton Council has called in Lanes to carry out CCTV drainage surveys of culverts, followed by cleaning works, as part of the strategic management of flood risks in the town. The council, as Lead Local Flood Authority…
Lanes for Drains got to the bottom of persistent flooding at one of the UK’s largest cement works – and saved the company tens of thousands of pounds it expected to have to spend to cure the problem. Lanes engineers based in Sheffield were called in to investigate the flooding of a railway track on…
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…
Engineers at Lanes for Drains Plymouth worked round the clock in a race against time to carry out a major repair on a pipe at one of Cornwall’s largest food factories. They successfully completed the job by working 24 hours a day over a weekend, allowing full food production to resume on Monday morning –…
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…
Lanes has used Ultracoat, a revolutionary waterproofing rehabilitation system, to help a Drainage Board keep its patch of Lincolnshire free from flooding for another 50 years. The Upper Witham Internal Drainage Board (IDB) is one of 130 such organisations across the country which, together, look after water levels in over 1.2 million hectares of low-lying…
It looks as though Rossendale United FC has the perfect pitch, after a visit from Lanes for Drains ended a serious problem with waterlogging at the club’s East Lancashire ground. And, despite other matches in the region being called off following heavy downpours, the Unibond League club proudly reports that since Lanes cleaned out the…
