Hydro-Brake® Flow Controls Specified to Relieve Yorkshire Flooding
Hydro International's Hydro-Brake® Flow Controls have been installed into a new dam near Devil's Bridge, on the Blackburn Brook just outside Sheffield. JBA Consulting specified two of the large flow control devices to reduce the risk of flooding on the nearby Thorncliffe Industrial Estate, and surrounding residential areas...... Read more...

England's Best Kept SUDS Secret
A pioneering drainage scheme on a Hampshire housing development, acclaimed as a national example of good practice, was only made possible by 18 of the country's best-kept SUDS secrets. The 1900-home Elvetham Heath development at Fleet is hailed as a shining example of Sustainable Drainage Systems..... Read more...

Hydro-Brake® Flow Control at Core of Portpatrick Flood Defences
The small harbour and fishing port of Portpatrick, opposite Belfast from the Galloway coastline, lies at the foot of a range of hills which catch the prevailing rain coming over Ireland from the Atlantic. To help alleviate flooding incidents from the Dinvin Burn..... Read more...

Weedon Dam Flood Alleviation Scheme
The pretty Northampton villages around Weedon, in the upper River Nene valley, suffered disastrous flooding in 1998, with Weedon Bec being particularly affected. To alleviate this problem, the Environment Agency (EA) and consultants Halcrow have put into place a dam project to contain floodwater in the catchment area, of which the key component is a 6.5 ton, 2 metre diameter Hydro-Brake® Flow Control device... Read more...

Hydro-Brake® Controls Main Street Flooding
As part of the flood alleviation programme for the main street of the pretty Leicestershire village of Worthington, Severn Trent Water designed a 310 m3 stormwater storage facility. To provide the discharge control, Severn Trent Water specified a Hydro-Brake® CX183 flow control, which ensures a maximum discharge of 40 l/s to the local wastewater treatment works... Read more...

Hydrological Analysis
It is a fact that the development of land causes both an increase in volume and rate of runoff of stormwater. There is an alternative to flooding which does not involve the costly construction of additional relief sewers. The Hydro-Brake® Flow Control concept of stormwater management stems from the idea of utilising Surface Water Attenuation Storage Systems as a way of reducing the need for additional sewer capacity downstream of the development... Read more...