Jo Bradley, Market Development Manager at SDS, takes a look at a neglected issue: rainwater that runs off impervious surfaces such as roads, roofs and car parks can carry with it hazardous pollutants.
Heavy storms pose not only a risk of flooding but the danger of delivering poisonous metals and hydrocarbons to sensitive rivers, streams and groundwaters.
To read the full article, published in full by “Environment Times” magazine, please click here.
Specifying SDS Aqua-Swirl hydrodynamic separators gave us added flexibility to engineer high-performance water quality protection upstream of SuDS ponds for the latest phase of the Berewood development. SDS’s bespoke inhouse manufacturing facilities, together with a wide choice of product sizes and outlet pipe diameters, allowed us to minimise the sizes of the devices we required. With the added benefit of the Aqua-SwirlTM’s lightweight plastic construction, we were therefore able to reduce excavation and construction costs significantly.
Paul Stewart, Technical Director, Mayer Brown.
SDS - Stormwater Management - Residential Setting
SDS - Stormwater Management - Industrial Setting
