Drainage team praised for Orkney success

Customers praised the Lanes team for the support provided to clear a heavily-contaminated pipe, water jet drains around a major reservoir and survey sewers at a new housing estate.

Five operatives from the Lanes Aberdeen depot travelled by ferry to Orkney Mainland with a jet vac tanker, a CCTV drainage survey unit and a tracked off-road water jetting unit.

Lanes area development manager Mark Morrice said: “We delivered services for three customers over the week. Combining work in one intensive package significantly reduces costs for our Scottish islands customers.”

The team used high-pressure water jetting to clear a 100-metre-long 150mm-diameter pipe that was 30 per cent filled with concrete.

The team also supported a building contractor in carrying out a pre-adoption CCTV drainage survey on the drainage system serving a new housing estate on the Mainland in a project that lasted two days.

The operatives then moved on to a large reservoir to water jet clean surface water drains serving the site. Pipes with a combined length of over 500 metres were cleaned over two days.

Where parts of the site could not be reached by the jet vac tanker, the tracked remote-access water jetting reel was deployed. All drain lines were CCTV surveyed to show they were clear of debris.