{"id":452,"date":"2024-05-02T16:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2024-05-02T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:32:12","slug":"soakaway-testing-warminster-wiltshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/05\/02\/soakaway-testing-warminster-wiltshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Soakaway Testing Warminster &#8211; Wiltshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Soakaway Testing Warminster\u00a0 &#8211; Wiltshire<\/h1>\n<p>Another day. . . another hole in the ground with water in it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_454\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-454\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-454\" src=\"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-1-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">soakaway testing in wiltshire in chalk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today we have been in sunny <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/2rdLyZugpter1rva9\">Wiltshire<\/a>, doing some soakaway tests on a residential development site. As is obvious from the pictures above, the site is on chalk. The chalk in this instance was weather and with patience could be excavated using an. . . . excavator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-453\" src=\"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-2-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soakaway-testing-wiltshire-chalk-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We dug the hole very closed to the location ear-marked on drawings for the actually planned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=crate+soakaway&amp;oq=crate+soakaway&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512l2j0i22i30l7.802j0j15&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\">crate soakaway<\/a> system. The results were not too bad, as the water infiltrated at a reasonable rates.<\/p>\n<p>If you require <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwest-environmental.co.uk\/further%20info\/drainage\/bre_365_soakaway_tests.html\">BRE 365 soakaway testing<\/a> for a planning application or for design purposes we can arrange on a quick turnaround. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwest-environmental.co.uk\/contacts.html\">contact us for a quotation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soakaway Testing Warminster\u00a0 &#8211; Wiltshire Another day. . . another hole in the ground with water in it. Today we have been in sunny Wiltshire, doing some soakaway tests on a residential development site. As is obvious from the pictures above, the site is on chalk. The chalk in this instance was weather and with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bre-365","tag-bre-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}