How Green Horizon Eco Solutions Can Help With Your Field & Lawn Drainage In Gateshead & Across The North East
Commercial and Domestic Field & Lawn Drainage – garden drainage installation golf/bowling/football.
We provide expert Field & Lawn Drainage in Gateshead and across the whole of the North East. Works normally consist of earthworks, drainage, soil preparation, seeding, and initial aftercare. Key parts to this are the management of the earthworks to prevent damage to the soil structure. We always use low ground pressure equipment for soil replacement. Our team carry out professional field & lawn drainage installation and soil preparation, we usually carry out the initial aftercare and manage this closely to ensure a good quality, free draining surface is handed over to the client.
Garden Drainage Installation
Golf Courses
Football Pitches
Bowling Green
Other Services Offered
Decompaction
Over Seeding
Top Dressings
Sand Spreading
Seeding
Turfing and Primary/Secondary Drainage systems
Management Plans
Whatever the size of your project, Green Horizon provides
a standard of service quality unmatched by any other
company in the industry.
For more information please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Sub-surface drainage
Where should the water go?
The first thing to do in deciding about whether or not additional lawn drainage is required is to find out where the excess water is coming from and where should it be directed towards. It is easy enough to say that high rainfall is the problem but perhaps there is a problem with the existing drainage in and around your lawn. If the pipework is already in place, it is worth checking this thoroughly for damage which might be the cause for the water to escape into your lawn. Whatever drainage system is installed, a positive outlet is always required.
Secondly, it is worth investigating where the water is going. Is it collecting at a central point in your lawn? Is there surface flooding? These questions should be addressed to fix the problem. If your lawn is not flat and runs on a slope it is worth seeing where the water stops as there will be a point at a low level where the water collects.
Pipe Drainage
Pipe drainage systems are usually based on one of four main designs. Herringbone and Grid systems are the most common; however, Fan and Natural systems also have a place within certain circumstances.
Herringbone
This system provides for a main central pipe, which runs down a slope and has lateral pipes connecting to it at acute angles. This type of design is typically used on areas that are irregular in shape but also include large rectangular lawns and general amenity playing fields. An advantage of a herringbone design is that less depth is needed for excavated drains to achieve the necessary falls. However, the disadvantages are that the designs are more complicated than the Grid system. In addition, if the pipe system is later upgraded with sand-gravel slits, then there will be a variable slit length before the slit discharges its water because of the angled layout of the herringbone design.
Grid (Gridiron or Parallel)
This system has a main pipe, or pipes, at the perimeter of an area with laterals joining the main pipe either at right angles or an acute angle. The main pipe will either run along or near to the line of the fall of the land. The lateral pipes will typically cross the fall of the land in a diagonal fashion. This type of design is typically used on regular shaped areas such as football/rugby pitches and bowling greens. A grid system is probably the commonest type of system that is installed in turf areas because it is easier to install, has fewer junctions than a herringbone system and can also be easily upgraded with the addition of sand/gravel slits.
Fan
This system is used for small or irregular shaped areas. Typically this would be a localised, low lying wet area and may also include parts of a golf fairway. A golf green may also be considered, however, a herringbone system would be used in the majority of cases. All pipes in a fan system
are laterals that connect directly to an outlet.
Natural (Random or Contour)
This can be used on ‘natural’ amenity grasslands and golf fairways. These systems of pipes follow the natural contours
of the land with the main pipe being installed in the low areas and laterals connecting to it from adjacent areas.
Proposals:
We will perform a site evaluation and relevant field & lawn drainage profiling, discuss your ideas and requirements and use all of this information to compile a detailed quotation and design and
deliver it to you promptly. Once we’ve agreed
on a design and a price, we will get to work on your project.
Other Eco Services
Woodland Management
Natural Flood Management
Green Roofs
Bio Retention Systems
Field/Lawn Drainage
Wildflower Meadow Establishment
Wildlife Ponds
Green Walls
