Sewer Inspection News
National water utilities and drainage specialist Lanes Group plc has installed its biggest ever liners – not once but twice, and in less than one week. The company’s sewer rehabilitation and lining division has installed liners in two sewer pipes, each 249m long and 1.2m in diameter, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. They were the biggest liners…
A multi-disciplinary team of drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc has completed the lining of a drainage pipe nearly one kilometre long on behalf of a contractor working for Scottish Water. The challenging project involved installing five separate liners, one of them 200 metres long, in a surface water pipe across farmland near Kelso in…
A go-anywhere jet vac tanker designed for use by the military and United Nations relief teams is proving its worth helping keep sewers running smoothly across central and southern England. The JHL recycling jet vac tanker is being used by Lanes Group plc to access remote sewers and culverts across the most difficult terrain on…
Lanes Group has become the first wastewater network contractor in the UK to commercially deploy pipe inspection technology that uses sound to assess the condition of sewers. The company’s utilities division has worked in partnership with Thames Water to implement the SewerBatt acoustic inspection device, which uses the same echo-location principles that allow bats…
Lanes Group has completed a three week programme of drainage maintenance at the Shetland Islands’ main power station. The work at Lerwick Power Station, run by Scottish Southern Energy (SSE), included a comprehensive CCTV drainage survey of the site, drainage jetting and pipe patch lining. A team of eight drainage engineers from Lanes Group’s Aberdeen depot travelled by…
The Lanes depot in Tyne & Wear is offering clients a faster and more cost-effective culvert inspection service with the latest pole camera technology. Its drainage engineers can now quickly provide the most detailed views of large culverts and sewers with its QuickView Zoom camera. The drainage inspection equipment, the most advanced on the UK…
Lanes Group engineers are helping one of the UK’s largest residential developers achieve a smooth sewer adoption process at new home sites in Yorkshire and Humberside. The team at the Lanes depot in Leeds, West Yorkshire, are providing expert sewer adoption advice and support for sites developed by Taylor Wimpey. Two projects include Crest Park…
Lanes engineers have taken drainage inspections along the M6toll around Birmingham into the fast lane with a powerful zoom camera. The Lanes depot at Minworth, in Birmingham, has invested in the UK’s most advanced drainage pole camera to carry out the inspection work for Midland Expressway, which operates and maintains the 27-mile-long motorway from Coleshill…
