At A Glance:
- Location : Hyde Park, London
- Client: The Royal Parks
- Contractor: SB Civil Engineering
Products Supplied:
- 3no. SPEL Tankstor TS300/42000 with 42,000 litre rainwater capacity each – totalling over 125,000 litres of rainwater storage.
- SPEL Tankstor rainwater storage tank can be any of our Tankstor range, from 2,000 litre to 300,000 litre within a single unit
(interlinking the tanks for modular capacity is also available)
Hyde Park is a Grad I-listed major park in Central London, established in 1637. It is the largest of four Royal Parks that form a chain from the entrance of Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park past the main entrance to Buckingham Palace. Hyde Park is considered one of the best city parks in the world and extends to about 625 acres.
The Super Nursery has been established for growing over 450,000 bedding plants for the flower displays across the eight Royal Parks. The nursery grows around 900 plant varieties for the summer displays and around 300 varieties for the winter displays.
The vast number of plants being grown within this world leading nursery requires a huge amount of water. The large glass greenhouses with roofs covering thousands of metre squared of area were perfect for rainwater harvesting, cutting the operating costs of the nursery and providing water that did not contain any chemicals, as is often present in mains water.
SPEL did not provide the pumping equipment on this project, instead the nursery were providing this above ground level. Therefore SPEL provided inlets/outlet pipework, including suction pipework to work with the system that the nursery wanted to install. Internal calming pipework can also be installed to ensure that silt that has settled on the tank base is not disturbed as more water enters the tank.
On this project, a shallow excavation was requested, therefore we utilised our 1.8m diameter 300 Series Tankstor range with low-level interconnections to achieve the 125,000 litre storage required, instead of using a single 3.5m diameter SPEL Tankstor.
