Source Control Systems: The Natural Choice For Grass Reinforcement And Hydrocarbon Removal

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Thanks to a huge growth in the number of environmentally-conscious consumers, and increased government legislation, businesses in every industry have been more proactive in the development of products which protect our natural resources. The construction industry has seen a considerable shift to practices which help preserve the environment and work sympathetically with nature. At the forefront of these advanced and environment friendly solutions and products is Source Control Systems.
Source Control Systems is one of the leading manufacturers of specialised grass protection and gravel reinforcement grid systems in the UK. These are supplemented by a range of Source Control Systems infiltration and attenuation crates for surface water as well as rainwater harvesting and hydrocarbon removal systems.
The Source Control Systems team fully understands the importance of proper environmental protection to our economy, our well being and how careful resource management is necessary to produce our own food and clean energy. This is why Source Control Systems ...
... products and services are focused on cost effective conservation and sustainable development to protect our precious environment.
Source Control Systems provides innovative solutions for environmental projects to a wide customer base, and provide technical advice to both professionals and members of the public. In the Source Control Systems online store there is a comprehensive range of products, developed over many years and all related in some way to surface water.
With the government advocating the use of porous surfacing and cellular paving in an attempt to deal with the over capacity of our aging sewers, one of the main products on the site is Source Control’s grass protection system and plastic gravel reinforcement system.
These are an interlocking recycled plastic grid paving system for reinforcing and stabilising grass that can get damaged by regular pedestrian and vehicle use, providing a visually pleasant and stable surface structure through which grass can be grown. The grass and gravel reinforcement systems  are ideal for car parks, overspill car parks and areas that currently suffer and damage to the grass surface, and where a natural grass surface is required.
Similarly, the management of stormwater has become increasingly important in recent years, with climate change creating more frequent, unexpected localised flooding. Stormwater runoff from rooftops, roadways and other sealed surfaces washes the area over which it travels picking up pollutants such as debris and hydrocarbons on its way. Source Control Systems provides solutions to manage this problem, either by infiltration or by attenuation in conjunction with Smart Sponge® hydrocarbon filtration devices.
Both these methods reduce the impact of storm water and help to reduce flood risk dramatically adding to the sustainability of building schemes.
One of the most prevalent pollutants in stormwater is oil or hydrocarbon. Surface-water also picks up various pathogens from dog faeces etc as it makes its way to the sewer Source Control Systems offer products that utilise Smart Sponge technology to permanently remove hydrocarbons by acting as an absorbent to improve water quality, filtering out these hydrocarbons as the stormwater passes through.