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Sywell case study
Having done many such projects for Tom at Fountain Construction, we were pleased to be asked to quote for another connection to the public sewer for one property in Sywell, Northants.
Objective
Having done many such projects for Tom at Fountain Construction, we were pleased to be asked to quote for another connection to the public sewer for one property in Sywell, Northants. Tom and his team had laid all the pipework in private property up to the boundary and we were asked to lay all the pipework in the Highway and to make connection onto the public sewer. As part of our package we also priced for facilitating the Section 106 application to Anglian Water and also the Section 50 application to Northants Highways. Tom already had the AW asset drawing which had been downloaded from Digdat, and this showed the public sewer to be a bit less than 2m deep.
Our Solution
The Section 106 was to include for some surface water to discharge into the sewer. Tom supplied us with drainage drawings which detailed attenuation within the site, after which a significantly reduced-flow of surface water would be allowed to discharged into the public sewer – soakaways were not a suitable means of discharging of rainwater, due to the heavy-clay nature of the ground.
The Section 106 was passed within 10 days on this basis, and we then proceeded to apply for the Section 50 to Northants Highways. The road would have been suitable for ‘give and take’ traffic management, however the work was just past the brow of a hill, and traffic in each direction did not have very clear line of sight, of oncoming traffic. So it was decided to apply for 2-way lights for this reason. Our application to Highways was approved just under three weeks after submission to them.
About the Project
We located the existing 150mm sewer at 1.9m deep in the road. The excavation was made safe throughout with trench sheets and the connection made by junction insertion. We then excavated for and laid the pipework all the way to the kerbline, and reinstated the carriageway. With the carriageway resurfaced, we diverted pedestrians onto the carriageway into a purposely set-up pedestrian walkway, after which we continued to excavate in the grass verge and footpath. We laid the pipework to the site boundary, and reinstated the verge and footpath.
Timeline
Time taken to quote for the works: 1 week
Time taken to obtain Section 106 Licence: 2 weeks
Time taken to obtain Section 50 Licence: 3 weeks
Leadtime to use S50 Licence: 3 weeks
Time taken to do the work: 4 days
Total time: 10 weeks
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It was a pleasure to work with Tom again and we look forward to our next project with him.
