Thames Water News
A team of safety, transport and fleet management professionals from Lanes Group plc are dressing up as superheroes for a sponsored walk to mark Road Safety Week. They are sure to impress passersby as they walk the 10 miles from the Lanes utility depot at Iver in Buckinghamshire to the Customer Solution Centre (CSC) at…
Drainage and wastewater service specialist Lanes Group plc is using an innovative app that learns through artificial intelligence to help protect its employees against manual handling injuries. The app videos colleagues as they carry out tasks and analyses risks associated with their posture, allowing them to change their behaviour to avoid injury. Lanes Utilities, the…
More than 150 industry experts have gathered to review progress in the fight against fats, oils and grease in sewers at the third European FOG Summit, sponsored by Unblocktober. The event at the Brighton Hilton Metropole, co-hosted by British Water, Southern Water and software specialist SwiftComply, heard how FOG should be considered a resource not…
Intrepid paddlers from Lanes Group plc have made a splash for WaterAid as Thames Water revived its annual raft race on the River Thames. There was no chance of any untoward risks when the participants took to the water in Reading because every one of them works for the Lanes Utilities health and safety team….
Drainage and wastewater specialist Lanes Group plc is rolling out one of the most sophisticated and capable fleets of drainage vehicles ever commissioned in the UK on behalf of Thames Water. The new van pack water jetting and CCTV survey vehicles benefit from new digital technologies and are designed to increase the number of first…
Water utility and drainage specialist Lanes Group plc has been challenged with setting a new UK record for planned sewer cleaning to protect millions of people and the environment against flooding. It has been tasked by Thames Water, the UK’s largest water company, with carrying out the planned cleaning of 2,000km of sewer pipe over…
A specialist wet well team from Lanes Group plc has supported pump engineers in repairing a sewer pumping station serving one of London’s largest shopping centre. They used their high volume vacuumation and jetting technology to clear debris from the pumping station at Westfield London in White City to allow the repair to be made….
After trying to catch a rat whilst out for a walk, Olive, a Bedlington terrier, chased a rodent into a waste outlet pipe. After not being able to retrieve Olive, the owner contacted Thames Water for some assistance. Engineers James Lewis and Jack Gale, who are most accustom to unblocking fatbergs, didn’t think they would…
