Drainage Services in Ringwood

Ringwood sits on the floodplain of the Hampshire Avon, and the river governs its drainage. The low ground beside the Avon and its side channels has a shallow water table that rises steeply after sustained winter rain, and the town has a long recorded history of flooding from the river. When the Avon is high, surface-water outfalls are drowned and drains back up from the watercourse rather than block internally — a distinction that matters a great deal when diagnosing a fault here.

The historic market town centre runs on older clay pipework, some combined, at shallow depth beneath narrow streets, with mature trees causing root ingress into displaced joints. Poulner and the eastern edge sit on higher terrace gravels and heathland sands that drain freely and generally suit soakaways, though sand washes readily into any open joint and silts the pipe. Towards Burley and Bransgore, on the forest fringe, many properties run septic tanks and treatment plants in ground where percolation varies sharply between gravel and clay.

Ringwood is a short run from our Ferndown depot, so response times here are among our quickest. We CCTV survey to establish whether the problem is river backflow, groundwater infiltration, sand ingress or blockage, jet to clear silt and root blockages, and reline fractured pipework in the town centre rather than excavating constrained historic plots.