Posted by Amelia Whitehart on November 20, 2019 in Home
Looking for the best rainwater storage management system that you can purchase online? Here are some advices to pick the best ground rain water management system. Taking into account the soil conditions, sizes of available crates, and the estimated water flow rate, you can start by excavating the site where you plan to install the soakaway crates. After doing this, you can then level the ground. This is necessary to ensure it is stable.
Most Local Authority Regulations will stipulate that Soakaways must be at least 5 metres from any habitable building. It is best to locate it on the lowest part of your garden, or land, as this will mean that you have less digging down to do. Having said that you do not want a run of pipe that is longer than you need, or that has a change of direction in it, unless you have to. Both of these situations will make the pipe more susceptible to getting blocked. You also need to bear in mind where the water table lies. You should dig an exploratory pit to check that the water table is below your intended site for your soakaway – otherwise the water you direct there will not have anywhere to drain out to.
A soakaway is a hole dug into the ground and filled with plastic crates; this creates a void where rainwater can be stored until it seeps into the ground. The “old school” method of filling a hole with rubble or other waste material is now obsolete, and you should only consider it for tiny areas that receive very little rainfall. Plastic crates are the best way to build an efficient soakaway that will last for decades. Soakaways are designed to cope with large amounts of surface and roof rainwater, without them our homes and neighbourhoods would experience flash floods whenever it rained. The rainwater from roof gutters, patios and driveways should ideally be directed towards a soakaway within the boundary of the property. If that isn’t possible, there are other options.
According to the different rainwater source, the Multi Functional Water Management System can be roughly divided into two categories: Roof rainwater, the roof rainwater is relatively clean and with less foreign matters, mud and other pollutants, it can be drained directly into water storage system through split-flow and simple filtration for the utilization after processing. Ground rain water, there are many foreign matters in the ground rainwater with complex pollutant source, after the split-flow and rough filtration, it must be treated through sediment then to be drained into the water storage system. Read more details on Soakaway Crates.