Assets. United.

When your drainage data finally works as hard as you do!

Are you a Drainage Manager within a UK local authority? Are you responsible for keeping the drains, gulleys and gutters of your city, borough or county clear of debris and blockages, to ensure that flood risk is kept to a minimum? Do you spend more time wrestling with data than trusting the decisions it’s meant to support? If so, you’ll be under pressure to do this with increasingly fewer resources (and lower budgets) than ever – and it may time to consider a better way of working.

Spend less time probing data and more time making intelligent asset decisions!

Too much of Drainage Managers’ time is spent collating data, replicating work across disparate systems and manually checking information just to be confident it’s right. This doesn’t just slow you down – it makes managing drainage assets and protecting the network from flooding far harder than it needs to be.

Joined up data
But, when your asset data is joined up and you’re confident in its accuracy, you can understand the condition and performance of your drainage network. This allows your team to respond quickly when issues do arise, justify maintenance decisions and demonstrate exactly what’s happening across your drainage assets.

Based on real-time data, we can help you identify drainage faults, blockages and potential flood risks earlier, plan inspections and maintenance before problems escalate, and move away from the constant cycle of reactive repairs to blocked assets.

What does this mean for you?
It means that your performance isn’t defined by the latest blocked gully or flooding incident. Instead, it’s shaped by the quality of the decisions you make every day – using reliable data to manage your drainage assets more effectively and keep water flowing across your network.

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Benefits

Confirm for Drainage

Brightly’s Confirm solution enables local authorities to move from reactive responses to proactive, risk-based maintenance – supporting faster intervention, better planning and more informed decision-making across drainage networks.

Real-time asset visibility

Confirm centralises all drainage assets into a single registry to improve visibility and enable faster responses to blockages and defects.

Mobile field workflows

Field crews can capture and update drainage inspection and maintenance data via mobile devices, which reduces data lag and improves operational efficiency.

GIS-driven insights

Built-in GIS mapping visualises asset locations, which helps crews to prioritise drainage blockages and plan routes effectively.

Risk-based maintenance focus

Confirm’s centralised data supports the analysis of asset performance trends, which enables proactive maintenance and reduces reactive workload.

Improved decision-making and reporting

Interactive reports and dashboards provide clear metrics on drainage condition and performance for operational planning.

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Don’t just take our word for it…

Listen to what current customers of our Confirm platform have to say about their experiences of using it, as well as the benefits they’ve seen within their local authorities.

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Chris Newson

Future-proofing infrastructure with predictive asset management

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Roger Leverett

Turning local government experience into smarter asset management

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Nicola Casburn

Understanding local authority pressures

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Lesley Cocker

Supporting councils with smarter asset management

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Matt Garner

Behind the implementation: Empowering local authorities to work smarter

Success Stories

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Bristol City Council

“We’re saving a huge amount of time and can have much more confidence in the accuracy of the records we’re keeping, with Confirm as central source of information for all assets.” 

Jenna
Angle
Bristol City Council
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