Thames Water News
Water utility maintenance provider Lanes Group plc has created an innovative career and pay system designed to help retain and recruit skilled people and support operational excellence. Pathway to Success has been introduced across the company’s operational teams delivering wastewater network service (WNS) maintenance services for Thames Water. Lanes believes it is one of the…
Lanes Group plc is backing a month-long campaign by Thames Water to get people to pledge not to flush wet wipes down the loo. Wet wipes wrongly disposed of down toilets are one of the main causes of blockages in drains and sewers. They are also a key ingredient in sewer-clogging fatbergs. Thames Water’s campaign,…
The journey may not have been as picturesque, but Lanes Utilities colleagues rode the entire length of the River Thames to raise money for good causes. They have taken part in the Lanes Cycle Challenge, which is seeing teams from depots and service hubs across the UK cycle the distance along famous geographical landmarks for…
Wastewater professionals from national drainage specialist Lanes Group plc are supporting a campaign to clean up plastic pollution and other waste dumped along rivers in Greater London. Ten colleagues from Lanes Utilities, the wastewater network service maintenance partner for Thames Water, collected plastic, paper litter, and a shopping trolley along the Thames at Staines, in…
Lanes Group plc has won the Health and Wellbeing category in the Water Industry Achievement Awards for its pioneering work to support its people in the workplace. It has developed a wellbeing app for measuring happiness at work combined with a practical support programme led by a qualified wellbeing and mental health practitioner. The initiative,…
Lanes Group plc is the first drainage specialist in the UK to introduce a new low-entry high visibility lorry cab developed by Scania. The company is taking delivery of a jetting and vacuumation tanker that has the new L-series cab, designed to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety, especially in urban environments. The JHL jet vac…
TV viewers across Britain got a close-up view of what happens when the wrong items and substances are flushed down sewers in Channel 4’s documentary Fatberg Autopsy – Secrets of the Sewers. The documentary, broadcast on Tuesday 24 April, followed a team of Lanes Group plc wastewater engineers working for Thames Water as they tackled…
Shaun Ciccone has left behind a 30-year career as a restaurant, bar, and pub manager working across Europe to become a wastewater engineer for Lanes Utilities – and he could not be happier. The trained chef has taken his passion for giving great customer service into working as a drain blockage engineer for Lanes, on…
