We completed a civil engineering project at Hayedown Waste Transfer Station near Tavistock, Devon, for South Hams District Council, installing a new buried leachate tank and associated drainage infrastructure at the recycling facility. The project was designed to improve the management of water runoff from the existing glass recycling bay, providing a practical drainage solution within an operational waste transfer site.
The works involved deep excavation for a 36,400-litre leachate tank, including breaking through existing concrete slabs and carefully excavating in close proximity to an existing steel-framed building. Our team installed the tank at a depth of approximately five metres, incorporating a concrete base, specified backfill materials and reinstated concrete surfacing. The project also included new surface water drainage channels, pipework and underground ducting to connect the tank’s telemetry system to the existing recycling plant building.
