News channels almost daily broadcast video stories about the negative consequences caused by heavy rains in a particular region of the country. Unfortunately, in most cases, underground highways are provided for the drainage of rainfall streams:
- Not always able to handle such volumes of water.
- Quite often they are clogged with debris falling into them.
And the construction of new ones is quite an expensive undertaking. For a practical and ubiquitous solution to this problem, today such technology is used as the installation of surface drainage systems (you can learn more about it on the website of the STILOT company, which manufactures all the necessary components).
The principle of surface drainage
The scheme of a surface drainage device implies the collection of rain or melt water into special channels, where it gets by flowing along a natural or artificially made sloping surface. The gasket looks like this. Into a pre-prepared trench directed downhill towards a water collection point (for example, a sump):
- The drainage trays are being stacked.
- The canal along its entire length is covered with gratings capable of letting water through, but retaining large debris and withstanding the given load.
This completes the installation of the surface drainage system. Of course, for the initial design and calculation of its throughput, forecasters' data on the maximum precipitation rate in a given region, as well as the parameters of slopes, lengths, or the presence of turning sections are used.
You can get acquainted with the types of components for surface drainage systems using the online catalog of the Internet resource of the "STILOT" company. All the product names presented on its pages fully correspond to the declared technical parameters and have a long-term quality guarantee.
