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Stormcrate Offers Stormwater
Solution At NewPrimary School
For a new primary school currently
under construction in the West
Midlands, Brett Martin’s lightweight
and easy to install StormCrates have
been used to create an underground
attenuation tank for the temporary
storage of stormwater, reducing the
demand on built drainage.
In the Black Country town of
Tipton near Wolverhampton, Sacred
Heart Primary School is moving from
its outdated Victorian home to a
new state-of-the-art building just
half a mile away.
In order to manage rainwater
within the site and prevent flooding
during periods of bad weather, the
contractor Wilmott Dixon required
a drainage solution that could be
integrated within the site and found
the solution in StormCrate, an engineered Sustainable
Drainage System (SuDS).
Brett Martin provided the sub-contractor Forkers
with 964 StormCrates which were used to create a
292 m³ underground storage tank, constructed at a depth
of 840 mm, to offset stormwater run off from the de-
veloped area.
Helen Wilson of Forkers commented:
“For this new build school, the StormCrates met
our requirements perfectly and were used to
create an underground tank that could hold
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