What is a High Capacity Road Gully?
A road gully by definition is an outside water drain pipe that’s designed to discharge surface water. Rain water flows off the road surface into the road gully and then through underground pipes, sewer systems, soakaways, catchpits or roadside ditches, and on occasion directly into watercourses.
A high capacity road gully has an enhanced capacity for first line separation of silt and surface water runoff from surfaces prone to flooding.
Why use a High Capacity Road Gully?
The high capacity, precast concrete, road gully was developed, in conjunction with council engineers, as an effective, low maintenance, high capacity road gully for kerbside stormwater management. It rapidly removes water from roads prone to flooding.
It was created to help overcome common issues with highway flooding including:
