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    • CommentAuthorEd Davies
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2012
     
    Looking at an outline planning permission for a plot which includes: “install of treatment plant with 50 m rumbling drain and outfall to ditch”. What's that, then?

    Unfortunately the permission was granted before Highland Council put all the documents on line (2008) so I haven't more details to hand (e.g., the original application). Google isn't much help either.
    • CommentAuthorJoiner
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2012 edited
     
    Try here Ed...

    www.sepa.org.uk/water/water_regulation/guidance/idoc.ashx?docid=49551fc9-d9db-4ce8-b4d7-31ec2c25b63e&version=-1

    Mentions 'rumbling drains'. :wink:

    (Copy and paste into address bar.)
    • CommentAuthorskyewright
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2012 edited
     
    If you hover your mouse over some of the images (esp. on row 5) on this page

    http://her.highland.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=%27EHG3334%27

    you'll see mention of "rumbling drain". Other images mention "field drain". In the absence of other data my untrained eye can't see much if any difference...
    • CommentAuthordjh
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2012
     
    Posted By: Joinerwww.sepa.org.uk/water/water_regulation/guidance/idoc.ashx?docid=49551fc9-d9db-4ce8-b4d7-31ec2c25b63e&version=-1

    Mentions 'rumbling drains'.

    Adobe Reader claims not to find 'rumbling' or even 'rumbl' in that document. Did you post the correct link?
    • CommentAuthordjh
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2012
     
    http://her.highland.gov.uk/hbsmrgatewayhighland/DataFiles/LibraryLinkFiles/184068.pdf

    "A cut through the iron pan was noted and investigated. This proved to be a stone cobble filled
    field drain (colloquially known as a rumbling drain)"

    http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=18894&startset=33884587&dtext=snd&query=RUMMLE

    I suspect it's a name for a drain made by digging a trench and filling it with rocks, then perhaps covering it with turf or whatever.
    • CommentAuthorEd Davies
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2012
     
    Thanks folks.

    Joiner, I too can't find a reference in that document.

    It must be quite a local term. I drove down past the site described in Skyewright's reference (pity clicking on those images in the hope of bigger ones 404s - could have been useful). I found the site in question after going into the estate agents to ask about one near the site in Djh's first reference.
    • CommentAuthorJoiner
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2012
     
    :shamed: Wrong document. Must have been past my bedtime. :bigsmile: Sorry.

    "10(d) (iii) Single Dwellings:
    Single dwellings do not require SUDS, though this would still be encouraged
    where possible (e.g. by use of soakaways or porous pipes/rumbling drains).
    Rule (d) (iii) is therefore effectively an exemption from requiring SUDS for
    single dwellings."

    From...

    Supporting Guidance (WAT-SG-12)

    www.sepa.org.uk/water/regulations/guidance/idoc.ashx?docid=1dd4e09a-edfd-4196-8d43-9141aeba4e9f&version=-1
    • CommentAuthorJoiner
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2012 edited
     
    Just tested it and it takes you where I intended you to go earlier.

    Apologies. :cry:
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