Plymouth News
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,…
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…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have carried out a comprehensive programme of drain rehabilitation to renew pipes serving homes in Plymouth. Teams from the Lanes Plymouth depot uses the full array of their pipe renovation services to complete the project on behalf of the city’s largest social housing landlord. A CCTV drainage survey, also…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have carried out an extensive programme of drainage cleaning at one of the UK’s most important Naval war memorials. The CWGC Plymouth Naval Memorial, on The Hoe, in the centre of the city, commemorates the 23,184 sailors who lost their lives at sea during World War 1 and World…
Top interceptor team – Jet Vac Engineer Brendon Parsons, left, and Operations Manager Lee Hubber, who attended Newbery Metals to clean the interceptor. One of the leading metals recycling specialists in south west England has praised Lanes drainage engineers for the highly professional work they did to clean a large fuel and oil interceptor at…
Jason Webster brought an important lesson from his family life to his new job at Lanes Group – you get great results from being part of a big team. That is because Jason, the new Area Development Manager for the Lanes depot in Plymouth, has 10 children! He says he and his wife, Melanie, are…
Thousands of home owners and businesses across Devon and Cornwall risk falling foul of pollution protection regulations if they fail to upgrade their sewage processing systems. Drainage specialist Lanes Group, based in Plymouth, says regulations enforced by the Environment Agency (EA) set January 1 2020 as the deadline for properties to change or upgrade septic…
Two Lanes Group drainage engineers gave first aid to a motorist they found next to his overturned car on the M5 motorway in Devon. They used bandages from their first aid kit to staunch the flow of blood from a head wound of the man as he lay beside the smoking wreckage of his car….
