Drainage Services Across Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire runs from the Severn Vale and the historic city of Gloucester up onto the Cotswold limestone escarpment and across to the Forest of Dean.

Gloucester and Tewkesbury are among the most flood-exposed places in England, sitting at the confluence of the Severn and Avon, and when river levels rise the surface-water network simply cannot discharge — drains back up rather than block. In the Cotswolds, honey-stone villages like Stow, Northleach and Painswick have very old drainage, sometimes stone-lined culverts, and limestone geology where percolation varies from excellent to non-existent within a single site. Steep escarpment runoff around Stroud and its valleys overloads combined systems fast. The Forest of Dean adds former mining and quarrying ground with settlement and localised subsidence, plus many off-mains properties on septic tanks and soakaways.

We separate flooding from blockage on camera, reline aged clay and stone-jointed runs where the structure allows, and design soakaways from measured percolation rates rather than a standard detail.