The new SuDS standards in England were published by the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on the 19th of June 2025. They are a welcome step in improving the management of surface water drainage and the pollution from water run-off in England. These non-statutory standards for Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) are for […]
Both UK and International Stormwater Manufactured Treatment Devices are often certified under New Jersey’s stormwater treatment protocols and best practices, but who are NJDEP and NJCAT and what do they do? As the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) certification program for stormwater Manufactured Treatment Devices (MTDs) has evolved over the years, one issue […]
What is Nutrient Neutrality? Pollution caused by too many nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus, in our rivers and estuaries is a big problem for some locations. The nutrients of concern arise from fertilisers, untreated or partially treated sewage and water running off developments (to name a few sources). Natural England therefore has created the “National […]
One of the most often requested Rainwater Harvester repairs is for the Polypipe Ecovat controller. Now long discontinued by its manufacturer, it is still present in many UK rainwater systems, both commercial and domestic. As well as manufacturing our own rainwater control systems for projects of all sizes and types, 3P Technik UK offers repairs […]
Tesni Hyett is studying BioMedical Sciences at Cardiff University. She is the daughter of 3P Technik UK’s Director Glyn Hyett. During the summer break between her 2nd academic year and 3rd-year professional training year at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, researching Oncology, Glyn asked Tesni to research 6PPD in Stormwater. Glyn had read some articles […]
If you have one of the red series SteelPumps in the UK, we can repair them here in the UK! SteelPumps with red cap ends – the XAJE80G and XAJE80G1 series of SteelPumps were primarily bespoke made for the European market. A customer recently advised us that his OEM supplier could not repair these bespoke […]
We were approached to supply a tank-level alarm system with battery backup for a multi-unit residential building. 3P Technik UK already supplies a range of versatile level control/alarm solutions. On this occasion, there were specific requirements. Continuous monitoring of the water tank was critical to the occupation of the building.
Bespoke pump duty standby/assist controller with timed alternation and anti-stagnation purge 3P Technik UK was approached to supply a bespoke dual pump duty standby/assist controller for an industrial application. A specific requirement was for pump alternation not at each start-up but every 12 hours, with pumps activated by mechanical pressure switches and an hour counter […]
“307/07” is an XAJE120PRO automatic SteelPump. It is the 2nd SteelPump ever sold in the UK back in 2007. It has been returned to us for repair after working submerged automatically on demand in a domestic rainwater system for 15 years! Way ahead of the Right to Repair laws that came into force in the […]
A customer approached us to find an elegant solution to their distilled water tank level control problem. Our client has a 100L break tank that needs to be topped up with distilled water when the level in the tank dropped to about 25%. As they are using DI water, they were not able to use […]
