Jet Vacuumation News
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have used a powerful jet vac tanker to suck silt from the bottom of a leaking Welsh canal so it could be repaired. They vacuumed more than 100 tonnes of silt and mud from the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal to allow civil engineers to look for damage and carry…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have been creating waves at a new hotel soon to open next to one of the world’s top inland surfing centres. They have been flushing out surface water and foul drains serving the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel which is due to open at Adventure Parc Snowdonia, in Dolgarrog, Conwy,…
Drainage engineers have used their advanced water vacuumation technology to help enable an innovative project to generate hydro power on the Manchester Ship Canal. A team from Lanes Group plc’s Manchester depot used a powerful jet vac tanker to suck 2,500 gallons of water from the basement of a Victorian pump house on the canal…
Drainage expertise delivered by Lanes Group plc has supported the opening of London Stansted Airport’s first multi-storey car park. Lanes teams provided CCTV drainage survey, water jetting drain cleaning and pipe repair services for the main contractor, BAM Construction. The 2,700 space, six storey car park boosts the number of short-stay car parking spaces available…
A drainage team from Lanes Group plc have used powerful water jetting and vacuumation equipment to clear the outfall of a pipe linking two sites defined by icons of British transport technology. They removed six tonnes of rubble, shingle and shells blocking a sea outfall located at a former hovercraft terminal in Ramsgate Kent. The…
Lanes Group plc has passed five rigorous audits to retain national accreditation for transport fleet management and safe driving standards. The drainage specialist has achieved, through re-auditing, the Bronze accreditation for its UK transport fleet under the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS). FORS is used by companies operating across the UK to benchmark standards in…
Picture by Nilafion. Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have been praised for their fast response to help clear water pumps supporting the drainage system of a major road tunnel. Highways England called for assistance from the team at Lanes Plymouth to vacuum water from a sump containing drainage pumps at the Saltash Tunnel. The…
Image courtesy of: Mat Fascione / Lincs Offshore Wind Farm / CC BY-SA 2.0 Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have carried out high pressure water jetting to clean tanks at an electricity sub-station for a giant off-shore wind farm in the North Sea. The tanks have been installed to collect and store surface water…
