Drainage Services Across Devon

Devon covers everything from Victorian city drainage in Exeter and Plymouth to isolated farms on Dartmoor with private treatment systems and no mains connection for miles.

Plymouth's drainage carries the legacy of wartime destruction and rapid post-war rebuilding, so runs of 1950s pipework are now reaching the end of their service life, often laid over made ground. Exeter retains Victorian and older infrastructure — the city's medieval underground passages are a reminder of how long water has been managed here — and its combined sewers surcharge in heavy rain. Across rural Devon, heavy culm clay soils drain badly, so soakaways and drainage fields fail and land drains overload; steep coombes concentrate runoff into small systems very quickly. Tree and hedgerow roots in deep Devon banks readily enter clay pipework, and coastal towns face tide-locked outfalls and salt attack.

We work the same way everywhere in the county: camera survey first, jetting to clear, then relining or a properly sized soakaway or treatment system based on measured percolation, not assumption.