Soakaways, North West
End user: Trebaron Garden Centre
Location: Newton le Willows
Type of project: Soakaway drainage system
Specifier: Wedgewood Associates, Hampshire
Main contractor: White Building Services
Drainage subcontractor: same
Project requirements: Competitively priced drainage of surface water
System cost: £???
Key criteria: Highly efficient rainwater dispersal for large new phase of
garden centre as preferred alternative to crate system
Solution achieved: Unusually large steel soakaway – perforated Tubosider
pipe of 2m diameter providing over 300 cubic metres of capacity for gravity
feed direct into subsoil
Other benefits: Structurally stronger than crate systems and equally efficient
and competitive, as well as being faster to install