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Drainage and water utility specialist Lanes Group plc has completed a major sewer rehabilitation programme along one of the busiest main roads into Exeter in Devon. The work involved installation of multiple local structural repairs and one 167-metre full liner in highway drains along the A30 Honiton Road on the eastern outskirts of the city….
New regulations for discharging wastewater from septic tanks have now come into force – and householders and businesses that fall foul of them risk heavy financial penalties or even criminal prosecution. Since January 1st 2020, the regulations, called General Binding Rules: Small Sewage Discharge to the Ground, have not allowed wastewater from a standard septic…
Bill Crompton, described as one of the pioneers of the water jetting industry in the UK, has died at the age of 90. Bill founded Waterblast Ltd in 1973 and co-founded Neolith Pumps London Ltd in 1986 with his son, Bruce, and Allan Earnshaw. He went on to work as a consultant with Lanes for…
Drainage and water utilities specialist Lanes Group plc has grown its service capability with continued investment in a modern tanker fleet. In five years, the company has built a fleet of 60 tankers to support contracts with three water companies and a growing number of commercial customers. Roland Leslie, General Manager of the Lanes Tankering…
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…
Move aside, Charles Dickens! There’s a new version of “A Christmas Carol” in town this year – turning the classic festive tale into a story about the importance of clean drains. Entitled “The Drains of Christmas Future”, the two-minute animation provides a fun and timely twist on an iconic narrative, warning viewers of exactly what…
Friends Debora Harrison and Doug Meynell are looking forward to the 20th anniversary since they started working at the same drainage depot on the same day. They met for the first time on 5th June 2000, the day they both started at Lanes Group plc’s Teesside depot – and approaching two decades later, they’re still…
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…
