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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…
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…
The Facts About Fatbergs & Plastic Pollution – an infographic People in the UK are becoming increasingly aware of the danger that fatbergs and plastic pollution pose to our sewers and seas – but do they understand the full scale of the problem, or the way their day-to-day habits may be exacerbating the issue? The…
Drainage engineers working across the West Midlands are flushing out support for Unblocktober, the world’s first awareness month for protecting the UK’s sewers and seas. The campaign is challenging the British public to make small changes to their kitchen and bathroom habits for the whole calendar month of October to establish new routines that will…
Drainage teams from Lanes Group plc have cleaned downpipe stacks at one of the UK’s largest office complexes. They were supporting commercial fit-out specialists Beacon Business Interiors who have been refurbishing toilet blocks at MoD Abbey Wood. The site, at Filton, near Bristol, is home to Defence, Equipment and Support (DE&S), the Ministry of Defence’s…
Drainage and wastewater specialist Lanes Group plc has become the first service provider in the water utility industry to support its staff by using trauma risk management. The process, known as TRiM, originated in the Royal Marines and was used to assess battlefield trauma. Outside the military, it is most commonly used to support staff…
Lump by lump, a giant tube of concrete discovered by Lanes Group plc wastewater engineers is being removed from a sewer. The rock-hard concreteberg the size of a blue whale was found in the main sewer in Goswell Road, Islington, North London, in April 2019. After weeks of planning, a team of wastewater engineers from…
An elderly man has praised Lanes drainage engineer Michael Roberts for assisting him after he fell at home and could not get up. Michael, who works at the Lanes Group plc Leeds depot, had been mobilised to clear a blocked toilet when he found the customer had collapsed. He said: “I got to the property…
