Accordingly to Wikipedia, a storm drain is basically a tunnel that carry runoffs (rain) from urban areas. For a layman, it helps to think along the line of sewage system that works shower drain grates beneath our cities.
In the states, this is also known as "storm drainage covers drain" or "storm sewer".
In the UK, this is best known "surface water drain" or "surface water sewer".
In Australia and New Zealand, it is often called "stormwater drain".
And there you have it, when you hear someone mentioning "storm drain", "storm sewer", "surface water drain","surface water sewer" and "stormwater drain", congratulations, you floor grilles and registers know they mean exactly the same thing.
Functions of storm drain include draining excess water (rain or storm water) and ground water from pavement, streets and carparks into rivers and streams to avoid flooding.
Although storm drains accomplish a amazing job of draining excess water from the urban areas, the inlets are essentially openings where left uncovered can pose a danger to pedestrians. Left uncovered, rubbish will get into the storm drains and cause choking which may eventually cause flooding.
In order to ensure storm drains serve their purposes while minimizing the dangers posed to pedestrians and to prevent choking of the drainage grating drains, drain covers (gratings) are widely-used to cover the inlets (openings) of the storm drains to accomplish the two purposes.
Over at Jonite, we concentrate on steel reinforced drain covers (gratings) which cover your storm drains while preserving the aesthetic aspects of the architecture around the drain covers.
What is a channel drain?
A channel drain is largely the same thing as the trench drain. In actual fact, there are several names like line drain, slot drain, linear drain or strip drain which all mean the same object.
A channel drain (trench drain) is a kind of floor drain that has a channel shaped body characterized by its long length and narrow width.
Channel drains (trench drains) are usually mistaken for french drains. Make sure you bear in mind french drains are not the same as channel or trench drains.
With any type of drains, channel drains (trench drains) too demand a cover to serve as a safety precaution and to prevent large objects from entering the drains which cause choking.
At Jonite, we focus on steel reinforced channel (trench) grates (channel / trench covers) that offers you with the best of steel in its' strength and durability along with the natural splendor of stone which is unmatched by another material you could find to develop channel (trench) grates.
Find out more about our range of channel grates (trench grates) here.
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