Drainage Services Across Worcestershire

Worcestershire centres on the Severn and Avon valleys, with Worcester, Evesham, Kidderminster, Malvern and Droitwich each bringing their own drainage characteristics.

Flooding is the defining issue in the river towns. When the Severn is high at Worcester, Bewdley and Upton, surface-water outfalls are drowned and drains back up from the river rather than block from within — a pattern that repeats most winters. Older parts of Worcester have Victorian combined sewers and clay laterals affected by root ingress and shallow cover. Droitwich sits over natural brine deposits, and historic salt extraction there caused notable ground subsidence that still affects older buildings and their drainage. The Vale of Evesham's market-garden soils and heavy Lias clay percolate poorly, so soakaways and drainage fields silt and waterlog, and many rural properties run septic tanks under the General Binding Rules.

We survey with CCTV to establish whether the cause is river backflow, ground movement or blockage, then repair by relining wherever possible.