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    National Highways’ 182 road runoff sites: design and risk notes for engineers

    November 21, 2025|

    Reviewed by Tom Sullivan

    National Highways’ 182 road runoff sites: design and risk notes for engineers

    First reported on New Civil Engineer

    30 Second Briefing

    National Highways has identified 182 outfalls and soakaways on the Strategic Road Network that will be remediated for polluted road runoff by 2030, following pressure from river and water quality campaigners. The published list covers priority discharge points where runoff currently enters sensitive watercourses without adequate treatment, enabling targeted design of retrofit SuDS, settlement ponds, filters and upgraded soakaway systems. For civil and geotechnical teams, this signals a pipeline of brownfield drainage works involving constrained verges, high-traffic possessions and complex ground–water interface design.

    Technical Brief

    • Locations sit on the Strategic Road Network, implying high-speed, high-flow carriageways with limited verge width.
    • Outfalls and soakaways will require hydraulic re‑assessment to maintain existing road drainage capacity post‑treatment.
    • Retrofit SuDS and treatment assets must be integrated with existing pavement, embankment and cutting geometries.
    • Works will trigger CDM and roadworker safety controls under live traffic and night‑time possessions.
    • Sensitive watercourses imply tighter water quality objectives and likely Environment Agency permitting constraints.
    • Brownfield drainage interventions will need contaminated ground risk assessments and careful spoil handling strategies.
    • Programme offers a template for other highway authorities to prioritise runoff risks on legacy assets.

    Our Take

    Within our 21 Infrastructure stories, the United Kingdom features frequently on drainage and flood-resilience upgrades, so National Highways’ 182-location runoff remediation push is likely to compete directly with other water-management schemes for specialist contractors and materials.

    Targeting completion by 2030 effectively aligns National Highways’ programme with UK water-quality and habitat objectives on a similar timescale, which may encourage highway designers to standardise sustainable drainage details on new schemes rather than rely on later retrofit.

    For practitioners, a list of 182 outfalls and soakaways signals a shift from ad hoc treatment of polluted road runoff towards network-scale asset management, meaning more emphasis on condition surveys, performance monitoring and lifecycle costing of SuDS-type infrastructure on the strategic road network.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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