Searching for the best rainwater storage management system that you can buy online? Here are some tricks to pick the best soakaway crates. Nowadays, you can use soakaway crates to make a soakaway system. In this case, you have to wrap them in a permeable geotextile that allows the water to leak out into surrounding earth at a rate that is accepted by the ground. As a result of this, the ground can cope with all the rain water and surface without causing floors or creating stagnant water.
The size of the soakaway should be a minimum of 1m x 1m x 1m below the bottom of the incoming pipe. Other than that it depends on how much water the soakaway will be processing and the perculation rate of the surrounding soil – i.e. how quickly the water will soak into the soil around the soakaway. The hardcore (stone infill) should completely surround the pipe, and finish approximately 100mm above it. An impervious layer should then be placed on top of the stone, such as thick polythene, tarpaulin, or even a bed of concrete (A1 below). Topsoil can then be placed on top of this layer to restore the garden level (A below).
As a general rule of thumb, if you’re able to install a soakaway for your driveway or roof rainwater then you should. You may be able to discharge the water into a sewer if no other alternative exists and you have permission from the water company who may charge a yearly fee. There are occasions when it’s impossible to create a soakaway that works sufficiently: Your garden soil is made of thick clay, and the water doesn’t drain away, The water table is high, and you can’t build a soakaway that doesn’t fill with groundwater, You cannot build one within the constraints of the regulations (within 5 metres of a building or 2.5 metres from a boundary etc.)
According to the different rainwater source, the Multi Functional Water Management System can be roughly divided into two categories: Roof rainwater, the roof rainwater is relatively clean and with less foreign matters, mud and other pollutants, it can be drained directly into water storage system through split-flow and simple filtration for the utilization after processing. Ground rain water, there are many foreign matters in the ground rainwater with complex pollutant source, after the split-flow and rough filtration, it must be treated through sediment then to be drained into the water storage system. See more info on Multi Functional Water Management System.