Comprehensive drainage solutions from The Forest Group

In 2016 almost £4m in fines were paid by companies responsible for polluting rivers and smaller watercourses, with the construction industry identified as one of the major culprits.

The Forest Group has two systems – Gully Guard™ and Polybed^® - which provide cost-effective and efficient solutions.

Gully Guard™ is the only UK patented water management system that assists in maintaining the flow of water through gully pots to help prevent surface flooding, whilst at the same time, retaining debris, silt and associated pollutants, therefore significantly reducing watercourse pollution.

Used by many leading construction organisations and groundworkers across the UK, Gully Guard™ safeguards new construction developments from these risks and potential pollution fines from environmental and government enforcement agencies, who are working to improve environmental water quality under the European Water Framework directive.

Gully Guard™ is a robust and effective, easy to install filtration system which assists in trapping 97.9% of silt, debris, moveable solids and associated pollutants (including hydrocarbons and heavy metals) from surface water run-off from construction, operational and processing waste.

Using Gully Guard™ not only mitigates against potential surface flooding damage (and costly interruptions to development schedules) and watercourse pollution, but it is reusable and easy to service and maintain.

The Forest Group also offers Polybed^® drainage, a smarter alternative to the traditionally heavy aggregate based systems.

The lightweight and flexible material used to produce Polybed is ideal for use in a range of environments including restrictive and delicate conditions. The drainage system is engineered to enable contaminant filtration of heavy metals, de-icing agents, hydrocarbons whilst allowing water to flow through to the managed water course or storage facility.

Customers have found Polybed requires significantly less labour and plant resources, giving them quicker installation timescales over conventional drainage methods. Furthermore, the ground and turf recovery is especially appealing to their customers during landscaping and home development projects.

Polybed drainage has been developed to meet the needs of specifiers and contractors everywhere for a sustainable, efficient and effective alternative to traditional, labour intensive and costly natural aggregate applications.The flexibility of Polybed products makes them suitable for installation in a wide variety of configurations to suit its application area, including Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems. SUDS is a best practice approach to urban water policy management and actively encourages ‘cleaner water’ practices.

As well as being ideal for use in the construction trade, landscaping and general groundworks, Polybed has proven to be the perfect solution to a wide range of drainage problems within the sports and leisure sector.

The system is highly suitable for many types of load bearing drainage needs and have been rigorously tested and recommended for road and transport requirements by NTEC at Nottingham University.

Key uses include: urban planning and SUDS; storm drainage and soakaways; septic tank and sewage treatment; landscaping and general groundworks; and the sports and leisure sector.