Tagged: Hydro-Brake
Raising a Toast to SuDS on a Steep Scottish Mountain Highway
Highway degradation and surface water pollution in an environmentally sensitive area of the Scottish Cairngorms Mountains famous for its whisky production have been tackled with an imaginative SuDS Solution from Hydro International which has averted potential road safety problems on the A95. Poor drainage, flooding and freezing weather had led to a landslip and extreme [...]
Wigan’s Hydro-Brake® Flood Defences in Action
Heavy June rain put the Environment Agency’s £12million Flood Alleviation Scheme on the River Douglas through its first major test as torrential downpours spectacularly filled its radical new flood storage area. At the centre of the dam, just a mile from the town centre, two giant Hydro-Brake® Flow Controls successfully held back flood waters in [...]
Torrential Rain Tests Wigan’s Hydro-Brake® Flood Defences
Heavy June rain put the Environment Agency’s £12million Flood Alleviation Scheme on the River Douglas through its first major test as torrential downpours spectacularly filled its radical new flood storage area. At the centre of the dam, just a mile from the town centre, two giant Hydro-Brake® Flow Controls successfully held back flood waters in [...]
Business Park Hydro-Brakes Engineer in Nature’s Way
Environmental performance is a priority for developers of the prestigious new Meltonwest Business Park on the rural outskirts of Hull, who have used Hydro-Brake® Flow Control technology to engineer a natural solution to surface water drainage. Hull-based developers the Wykeland Group chose a sustainable drainage solution to regulate the expected high surface water flows created [...]
SuDS Solution for £Multi Million A46 Upgrade
The Highways Agency’s £375 million upgrade to create 28 kilometres of new dual carriageway on the A46 in Nottinghamshire is using a Sustainable Drainage solution combining natural and engineered techniques to achieve pre-development surface water runoff in a sensitive location.
SuDS Solution for £Multi Million A46 Upgrade
The Highways Agency’s £375 million upgrade to create 28 kilometres of new dual carriageway on the A46 in Nottinghamshire is using a Sustainable Drainage solution combining natural and engineered techniques to achieve pre-development surface water runoff in a sensitive location. Doubling the surface area of the metalled Newark to Widmerpool trunk road would have created [...]
Raising a Glass to Visionary Flood Prevention
Official celebrations to mark the success of two pioneering flood prevention schemes have highlighted their pioneering approaches to flood storage and deserve hearty congratulations. Glasgow City Council’s hugely impressive White Cart Flood Prevention project celebrated its official inauguration to much-deserved engineering plaudits on October 31 while Wigan’s visionary Flood Alleviation project was marked with celebrations [...]
Wigan’s ‘Radical’ Flood Solution
The Environment Agency’s radical solution to hold back water from the River Douglas, just a mile from the town centre, has provided the answer to reducing the flood risk to around 600 properties.
SUDS Trials led to “Twitchers’” Event
A successful trial in Redditch using vortex flow control devices instead of penstocks to control discharge from balancing ponds proved so successful that rare nesting birds moved in – causing an influx of local ‘twitchers’! *This is one of a series of case study examples shared by Local Authorities on Engineering Nature’s Way to [...]
Holding Back Glasgow’s Floods
The world’s largest ever Hydro-Brake® Flow Control devices have been installed as part of Glasgow City Council’s £53 million White Cart Water Flood Prevention scheme. The scheme is designed to protect 1,750 properties in the South of the city from the risk of flooding.
England’s Best-Kept SUDS Secret
A pioneering drainage scheme on a Hampshire housing development, acclaimed as a national example of good practice, was only made possible by 18 of the country’s best-kept SUDS secrets. The 1900-home Elvetham Heath development at Fleet is hailed as a shining example of sustainable drainage using linked swales and ponds. It is featured in the [...]
Regulating Flows at Sustainable Business Park
Environmental performance is a priority for developers of the prestigious new Meltonwest Business Park on the rural outskirts of Hull, who have used Hydro-Brake® Flow Control technology to engineer a natural solution to surface water drainage. Hull-based developers the Wykeland Group chose a sustainable drainage solution to regulate the expected high surface water flows created [...]
Ponds
A SUDS pond is a man-made pool that enables storage of stormwater in a natural environment with aquatic vegetation planted along its banks that encourages wildlife. Ponds provide stormwater attenuation and flood alleviation whilst providing a landscaped amenity in housing or commercial developments.
World’s largest Hydro-Brake® Stems Glasgow’s Floods
THE WORLD’S largest ever Hydro-Brake® Flow Control devices have been installed as part of Glasgow City Council’s £53 million White Cart Water Flood Prevention scheme. The scheme is designed to protect 1,750 properties in the South of the city from the risk of flooding.
Stormwater Control and Treatment Protects Watercourse
The Hop Oast Park & Ride facility, designed in line with Horsham District Council’s policy of providing sustainable infrastructure and services, is used to reduce long stay parking in the town centre. Adding further to its green credentials, the council installed a porous pavement with a Hydro Stormwater Package System to ensure controlled, unpolluted surface water discharge to the local watercourse.
High Street Flood Protection
As part of the flood alleviation programme for the main street of the pretty Leicestershire village of Worthington, Severn Trent Water designed a 310 m3 stormwater storage facility. To provide the discharge control, Severn Trent Water specified a Hydro-Brake® Flow Control, which ensures a maximum discharge of 40 l/s to the local watercourse treatment works.
Steep Sustainability for Welsh Park
Sustainable commercial development has received a boost in North Wales with the installation of Hydro International’s Stormcell® and Hydro-Brake® Flow Control stormwater control systems on one of the biggest business development projects for many years.
Vortex Flow Control
Harnessing natural kinetic energy to control the flow of water is at the heart of the Hydro-Brake® Flow Control principle – and it’s the same from the smallest to the largest.
Hydro International Hosts SuDS Round Table Debate
Hydro International hosted SuDS: The State of the Nation, a Round Table debate to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing SuDS delivery.
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