Salford Awards New SUDS Scheme to Aggregate
Industries
Salford City Council has awarded Aggregate Industries a
sustainable drainage contract for a new sports village, to assist
in the safe management of surface water generated by the
development.
The sports village includes amenity buildings, car parking
facilities for 100 vehicles and sports pitches built on former
grass playing fields and hardstanding areas in Lower Kersal,
Salford. Aggregate Industries’ stormwater drainage design aims to
provide a solution to the drainage of surface water from the
buildings and hardstanding areas and prevent flooding due to
surface water runoff via a sustainable drainage system using
infiltration techniques.
Central to Aggregate Industries’ design is the use of Charcon
Permavoid, a high-strength, highly-voided sub-base replacement
system which can be used in all applications where a traditional
aggregate sub-base is applicable. With specialist membranes and
textiles the system can provide either an attenuation or
infiltration drainage system.
Phil Tomlinson, national sales manager of Sustainable Drainage Systems for Aggregate
Industries, comments, “The SUDS design is based on zero runoff from the
development during a 1 in 100 year return period storm from the
combined car park and building impermeable area of 6,000 square
metres. Because the site is located above an Environment Agency
Source Protection Zone, the Charcon Permachannel system will also
be used to provide petrol interception/oil separation facilities to
runoff from vehicular areas.”
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