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If you need to treat the runoff from a driveway prior to discharge to main foul sewer for your SuDS planning application but don’t have space for a swale, we have a solution for you. We were recently approached by a SuDS consultant who had a customer that needed to treat driveway runoff but had room for any swale or other green infrastructure SuDS solution. We specified a HydroSystem 400. This upflow filter has the highest treatment performance, exceeding all UK Mitigation Indices. The mu …

If you require to store rainwater runoff as part of your SuDS scheme for sign off for your Sustainable Drainage for planning, we have many solutions available to you.  A recent example, a customer required a 2400L SuDS attenuation system for a new build home in England. The customer had minimal area for storage. A conventional round storage tank simply would take up too much space. They were looking for a compact water storage system that could be placed near the wall of the building.& …

Upstream water attenuation is part of a range of solutions to flooding, even better if it can be combined with wildlife friendly gardening. In this first in a series of blog posts about Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) we look at the role of Rain Gardens in Flood Mitigation. The term “Rain Garden” has changed over the years. Technically it has always been just one aspect of the design of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) and referred to a type of soft landscaping that slows the …