Drainage Services in Bordon

Bordon grew as a military garrison from the early twentieth century, and much of its original drainage was laid to serve barracks and associated housing on Folkestone and Sandgate beds — greensand over clay. That mix means drainage performance changes over short distances: reasonably permeable sandy greensand in places, heavy slow clay in others, which matters as much for soakaways as for pipe movement.

The town has been substantially redeveloped since the garrison closed, so alongside older clay pipework there are large modern schemes on plastic pipe with separated foul and surface water and designed attenuation. Where the two meet — new development connecting into legacy military-era runs — surveys often find undersized or damaged older sections carrying more flow than they were laid for. On the clay, seasonal shrink and swell opens joints, while sandy greensand washes into any open joint and silts the invert.

We CCTV survey in Bordon to establish which era of pipework a property actually drains through, since the legacy garrison network and the new development drainage fail in different ways. Jetting clears silt and root blockages, no-dig lining repairs older fractured runs without excavating roads and hard standing, and new surface-water design is based on measured percolation rather than assuming the greensand will take it.