Week 77, Day 4:
- More work on the swale for the rainwater drainage, connecting up the inlet pipework
- The swale inlet is a precast concrete unit from ACO, specifically designed to slow down the incoming flow and spread it out sideways to avoid eroding the soil to create a single narrow channel – more info at ACO SuDS Swale Inlet
- This looks a bit odd – especially when it first turns up in a Google search – but it does the job very well and there aren’t many alternative precast units in such a small size (this takes a 160mm pipe but a lot of them are designed for large housing developments with much bigger flow volumes)
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